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    "localId": "130387",
    "label": "Lotus-Seed Bowl with Petals and Arabesques",
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    "title": "Lotus-Seed Bowl with Petals and Arabesques",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle period (1403-1424)"
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    "tec": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
    "tombstone": "Lotus-Seed Bowl with Petals and Arabesques, 1403–24. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Yongle period (1403-1424). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 10.2 cm (4 in.); overall: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1953.15",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman. \"Early Ming Blue and White Porcelains.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>42, no. 2 (February 1955): 27–31.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 27; Mentioned: p. 29",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142015"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fujioka, Ryōichi 藤岡了一. <em>Gen Min-Sho No Sometsuki</em> 元明初の染付. Tōki zenshū vol. 11. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1960.",
            "page_number": "vol. 11, p. 46"
        }
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