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    "localId": "148696",
    "label": "Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses",
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    "id": "148696",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses",
    "description": "Japanese reading stands often incorporate motifs associated with seasonal poetry. The combination of long, narrow, miscanthus grass, bush clover with its small, ovoid leaves, and chrysanthemum with its many-petaled blossoms is classic autumnal imagery. One lacquer technique featured prominently on the stand is sprinkled gold in low relief (<em>hiramaki-e</em>). Pear-skin ground design (<em>nashiji-e</em>) is used for the slopes of the ground and in some of the leaves.",
    "date": "early 1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.15",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79929069"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)"
    ],
    "accession": "1976.15"
}

{
    "tec": "Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings",
    "tombstone": "Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses (菊秋草蒔絵書見台), early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings; overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1976.15",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "菊秋草蒔絵書見台",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Dew on chrysanthemum is seasonal imagery symbolizing the approach of winter.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1976.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 2 (February 1977): 39–79.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 160, pp. 69 and 79",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yoshimura Motoo 吉村元雄. <em>Kōdaiji makie </em>高台寺蒔絵. [Kyōto-shi]: Kyoto National Museum 京都国立博物館, 1971."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. <em>The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 118"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 81"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.15",
    "creditline": "Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:38:10.355000",
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    "sourceId": 148696,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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