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    "localId": "140215",
    "label": "Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior)",
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    "id": "140215",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior)",
    "description": "The production of extraordinarily refined Qing imperial wares such as these could have involved the transportation of undecorated, plain porcelains from the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, to the palace workshops in Beijing, where court painters applied the polychrome enamel decoration. The Qianlong reign mark on the base of the bowl is written with blue enamel over the transparent glaze.",
    "date": "1736–95",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.); Overall: 7.6 cm (3 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736–95)"
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    "tec": "porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration",
    "tombstone": "Bowl with Peony Sprays on Diaper Ground (exterior); Chrysanthemum Sprays (interior), 1736–95. China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and reign (1736–95). Porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration; diameter: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.); overall: 7.6 cm (3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.204.1",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "乾隆年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Mark in overglaze enamel: \"Qianlong nian zhi\" (Made in the reign of Qianlong)",
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    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 87"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:11:27.271000",
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    "sourceId": 140215,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration",
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}

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