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    "localId": "144287",
    "label": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Pine, Camellia, and Bamboo",
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}

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    "id": "144287",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Pine, Camellia, and Bamboo",
    "description": "Japanese writing boxes are designed to hold all the tools for traditional calligraphy, including an inkstone, water dropper, ink cake, and brushes. This box retains its inkstone and water dropper, the latter of which has a design of camellia and pine, matching the late winter, early spring lacquer motifs on the lid.",
    "date": "1400s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.124",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Lacquer"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.124/1969.124_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 24.2 x 22.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.124"
}

{
    "tec": "Lacquered wood with gold and silver sprinkled powder (maki-e), stone, and metal",
    "tombstone": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Pine, Camellia, and Bamboo (松椿竹蒔絵硯箱), 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Lacquered wood with gold and silver sprinkled powder (maki-e), stone, and metal; overall: 24.2 x 22.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1969.124",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "松椿竹蒔絵硯箱",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Pine, bamboo, and plum is a common seasonal motif; here the plum is replaced with camellia.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 24 (1970): 86–117.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 107",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2–51.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 51, no. 238",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307"
        },
        {
            "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. 378",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n398"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.124",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:24:24.006000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.124/1969.124_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 144287,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Lacquered wood with gold and silver sprinkled powder (maki-e), stone, and metal",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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