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    "localId": "140268",
    "label": "Screen with European Figures (obverse) and Landscape (reverse) with Stand",
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{
    "id": "140268",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Screen with European Figures (obverse) and Landscape (reverse) with Stand",
    "description": "On the obverse side of this two-sided table screen is an enamel-painted copper plaque with European figures. The image is probably derived from prints. European enamelware was introduced to China through missionary-artists at the Beijing court and foreign trade in Guangzhou.<br> <br>On the reverse side is a glass painting of architectural landscape in the Chinese style. At the Qing court, imperial commands made possible artistic collaboration and the incorporation of different artistic expressions in a single artwork.",
    "date": "1736–95",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.243",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60751352"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.243/1964.243_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.243/1964.243_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.243/1964.243_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painting only: 35.7 x 32.4 cm (14 1/16 x 12 3/4 in.); height with stand: 65.8 cm (25 7/8 in.); screen only: 44.3 x 47.6 x 1.5 cm (17 7/16 x 18 3/4 x 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Beijing palace workshops, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-1795)"
    ],
    "accession": "1964.243"
}

{
    "tec": "painted enamel, glass painting, and cast-iron stand",
    "tombstone": "Screen with European Figures (obverse) and Landscape (reverse) with Stand, 1736–95. China, Beijing palace workshops, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong reign (1736-1795). Painted enamel, glass painting, and cast-iron stand; painting only: 35.7 x 32.4 cm (14 1/16 x 12 3/4 in.); height with stand: 65.8 cm (25 7/8 in.); screen only: 44.3 x 47.6 x 1.5 cm (17 7/16 x 18 3/4 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.243",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "The screen is balanced on a heavy cast-iron base.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 190"
        },
        {
            "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: pp. 110–111"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.243",
    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:11:52.527000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.243/1964.243_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 140268,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "med": "painted enamel, glass painting, and cast-iron stand",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.243/1964.243_web.jpg",
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