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{
    "localId": "135012",
    "label": "Incense Burner",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "135012",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Incense Burner",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.63",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756235"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.63/1957.63_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.63/1957.63_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.3 x 15.6 cm (2 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)"
    ],
    "accession": "1957.63"
}

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    "tec": "porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware",
    "tombstone": "Incense Burner, 1200s. China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware; overall: 7.3 x 15.6 cm (2 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1957.63",
    "collection": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "There are six spur marks on the incense burner's glazed base.",
    "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. 850",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n150"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Janus in Limbo.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 50, no. 1 (January 1963): 2–6.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 3, fig. 1",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151927"
        },
        {
            "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": "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 (April 1978): 135–150.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 145–146, fig. 12",
            "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: p. 107, no. 111"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Leidy, Denise Patry, and Yale University Art Gallery. <em>Celadon on the Seas: Chinese Ceramics from the 9th to the 14th Century. </em>New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2024.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 31, fig. 1.12"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.63",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:54:10.822000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1957.63/1957.63_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 135012,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelaneous stoneware, Guan ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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