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    "localId": "135330",
    "label": "Ewer (Suichū)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "135330",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Ewer (Suichū)",
    "description": "This ewer was made to replenish the jar that holds water for rinsing teabowls and filling the iron kettle at tea gatherings. Highly abstracted pine trees, cascading ivy, stripes, and grids make up the designs in underglaze iron oxide, while the overall surface alternates between a transparent glaze and a green glaze characteristic of some Oribe tea wares.",
    "date": "early 1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.336",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80028471"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.336/1958.336_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.336/1958.336_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.336/1958.336_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)"
    ],
    "accession": "1958.336"
}

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    "tec": "Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)",
    "tombstone": "Ewer (Suichū) (織部手付水注), early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type); diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1958.336",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "織部手付水注",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Oribe wares are named for the tea master Furuta Oribe, who initiated the flamboyant designs that characterize them.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>Japanese Decorative Style</em>. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 54, p. 54",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n67"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 495, fig. 652"
        },
        {
            "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. 281",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n305"
        },
        {
            "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. 281",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n305"
        },
        {
            "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. 379",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n399"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R.<em> The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 134"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Takeuchi, Junʼichi 竹内順一, and Dean Robson. <em>Oribe, iwayuru Oribeizumu ni tsuite: Gifuken Bijutsukan kaikan 15-shūnen kinenten</em> [織部, いわゆるオリベイズムについて : 岐阜県美術館開館 15周年記念 = Oribe, (re)searching \"Oribeism\" : special exhibition for the 15th anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu]. Gifu-shi: Gifu-ken Bijutsukan, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 148, cat. no. 119"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.336",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:55:03.648000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.336/1958.336_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 135330,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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