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    "localId": "129888",
    "label": "Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire)",
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}

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    "id": "129888",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire)",
    "description": "The intricately painted birds that decorate this tureen are the work of Louis-Denis Armand. Armand was known for his depictions of birds and landscapes, a specialty that may have come from his work as a painter of lacquered furniture with similar compositions. This tureen was likely designed by master goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis who began working as an artistic director at the Vincennes Porcelain Factory in 1748.",
    "date": "c. 1752",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.3",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60760043"
    ],
    "creators": [
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        11807,
        452198
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.3/1952.3_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.3/1952.3_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.3/1952.3_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 25.8 x 38.5 cm (10 3/16 x 15 3/16 in.); Container: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, Vincennes"
    ],
    "accession": "1952.3"
}

{
    "tec": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration",
    "tombstone": "Covered Tureen (Terrine ancienne or Terrine ordinaire), c. 1752. Attributed to Louis-Denis Armand (French, active c. 1745–1783), Vincennes Porcelain Factory (France, 1740–56). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration; overall: 25.8 x 38.5 cm (10 3/16 x 15 3/16 in.); container: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.3",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "[Interlaced foliate 'L's surmounted by a fleur-de-lys (indicating royal commision), in blue]"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This object was manufactured in soft-paste porcelain, a material used by many European porcelain factories before they were able to emulate the hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Foote, Helen S. \"Vincennes and Meissen Porcelain.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>39 (June 1952).",
            "page_number": "p. 124-27"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 299",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n60"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"Vincennes-Sèvres Porcelain at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Antiques </em>LXXXV (March 1964).",
            "page_number": "p. 322-25"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 139",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n163"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 139",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n163"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jedding, Hermann. <em>Europäisches Porzellan</em>. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 278"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Zeidman Silver. <em>Guide to the Galleries</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.",
            "page_number": "n.p."
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 182",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n202"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Z. Silver. <em>Guide to the Galleries</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
            "page_number": "p. 70-71"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 61, fig. 64"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.3",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:42:31.494000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.3/1952.3_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 129888,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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