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    "localId": "134923",
    "label": "Basin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "134923",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Basin",
    "description": "Guan ware was the official ware fired at the Southern Song imperial kilns in Hangzhou. Multiple glazing is characteristic of this ware. The total thickness of the glaze can be greater than the clay body that supports it. Here, the thick gray-green glaze is webbed with a wide network of dark brown crackles as well as finer webs of light golden-brown and colorless crackles. The crackle pattern was developed after firing, due to the different rates of expansion and contraction of the body and the glaze. It was consciously exploited to achieve an aesthetic effect and was stained at different stages during the cooling process.",
    "date": "1127–1279",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.48",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778058"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)"
    ],
    "accession": "1957.48"
}

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    "tec": "porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware",
    "tombstone": "Basin (官窯圓洗), 1127–1279. China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware; diameter: 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1957.48",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "官窯圓洗",
    "collection": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "The base shows that the basin was fired on 17 small spurs arranged in two concentric circles.",
    "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. 849",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n149"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Early Byzantine Silver.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 45, no. 3 (1958): 35–94.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 78",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142265"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. <em>Chinese Ceramics in the West: Compendium of Chinese Ceramic Masterpieces in European and American Collection </em>[欧米蒐蔵中国陶磁図錄]. Tokyo: Mayuyama &amp; Co, 1960.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 51"
        },
        {
            "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. 257",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n281"
        },
        {
            "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. 257",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n281"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gakuji Hasebe 長谷部楽爾, ed. <em>Tōji </em>[陶磁= Ceramics]. Vol. 5 in <em>Chūgoku bijutsu</em> [中國美術 = Chinese art in western collections]. Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬, ed. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. 5, color pl. 43"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hasebe, Gakuji 長谷部楽爾, et al. <em>Sō</em> [宋 = Sung dynasty]. Tokyo: Shōgakkan, 1977.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 78"
        },
        {
            "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. 339",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n359"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kleinhenz, Henry J. \"Porcelains for Imperial Use: The Sung Dynasty.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 4 (1978): 135–150h.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 17, a",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159578"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 110"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hasebe, Gakuji 長谷部楽爾. <em>Sōji: shinpin to yobareta yakimono </em>[宋磁: 神品とよばれたやきもの = Song ceramics]. Japan: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 96, cat. no. 59"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Chung, Anita. \"A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee.\" <em>Orientations </em>vol. 40, no. 5 (2009).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 6"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 92–93"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 102"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“A Walking Tour: The entire new museum wing by wing, with curators calling out a few favorite works in the collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 8–33.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 31",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 33"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa Von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 185, no. 68"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.48",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:53:46.521000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.48/1957.48_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 134923,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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