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    "localId": "130943",
    "label": "Bowl with Decoration of the \"Three Friends\"",
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    "id": "130943",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Decoration of the \"Three Friends\"",
    "description": "Pine, bamboo, and plum blossom are known as the “Three Friends” of winter as metaphors of the scholar-gentleman’s ideal of integrity, endurance, loftiness, and purity.",
    "date": "1426–35",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.631",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756986"
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.631/1953.631_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and reign (1426-1435)"
    ],
    "accession": "1953.631"
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    "tec": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Decoration of the \"Three Friends\", 1426–35. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and reign (1426-1435). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); overall: 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1953.631",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大明宣德年製",
            "inscription_translation": "'Da Ming Xuande nianzhi' (Made in the Great Ming dynasty, Xuande reign)",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “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": "Mentioned: p. 30; Reproduced: p. 29",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142015"
        },
        {
            "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. 864",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n153"
        },
        {
            "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. 266",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n290"
        },
        {
            "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. 266",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n290"
        },
        {
            "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. 353",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n373"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lion-Goldschmidt, Daisy. <em>Ming Porcelain</em>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 89, no. 53"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Williams, Marjorie. <em>Chinese Painting--an Escape from the \"Dusty\" World</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 33, p. 48"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.631",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:46:10.508000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.631/1953.631_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 130943,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
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    "image_url": null
}

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