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    "localId": "130554",
    "label": "Albarello",
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    "id": "130554",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Albarello",
    "description": "An <em>albarello</em> is a type of pharmacy jar for dried medicinal herbs. The geometric ornament was inspired by contemporary Islamic designs in Muslim-occupied Spain.",
    "date": "c. 1400–1420",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.287",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60757761"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.287/1953.287_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.287/1953.287_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 30.7 x 11.5 cm (12 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Manises, 15th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1953.287"
}

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    "tec": "tin-glazed earthenware, brown lustre",
    "tombstone": "Albarello, c. 1400–1420. Spain, Manises, 15th century. Tin-glazed earthenware, brown lustre; overall: 30.7 x 11.5 cm (12 1/16 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1953.287",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 174",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n42"
        },
        {
            "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. 36, fig. 38"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.287",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:45:07.904000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.287/1953.287_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 130554,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "tin-glazed earthenware, brown lustre",
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    "image_url": null
}

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