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    "localId": "147587",
    "label": "Chicken-Headed Ewer",
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    "id": "147587",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Chicken-Headed Ewer",
    "description": "The development of high-fired celadon in the south was a significant achievement in Chinese ceramics history. The ewer's shape was indigenous and appeared to have been transformed from the <em>hu</em> (jar) attached with a small chicken head. Whereas the early chicken-headed ewers have a wide, stout body, this example represents a further development toward more elongated proportions, adding the decoration of carved lotus petals.",
    "date": "220–589 CE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.84",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.84/1973.84_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589)"
    ],
    "accession": "1973.84"
}

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    "tec": "green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware",
    "tombstone": "Chicken-Headed Ewer, 220–589 CE. China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589). Green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware; overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald, 1973.84",
    "collection": "China - Southern Dynasties",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Trubner, Henry. <em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 52"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“The Year in Review for 1973.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31–78.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 64; Mentioned: p. 78, no. 174",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 87, no. 92"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 322; Mentioned: p. 322, 324, 347",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.84",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 11:45:47.718000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.84/1973.84_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 147587,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Southern Dynasties",
    "med": "green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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