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    "localId": "149645",
    "label": "Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon",
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    "id": "149645",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon",
    "description": "Marie Edmé Patrice Maurice de MacMahon (1808-1893), whose portrait appears on this vase, was its first owner. He was a successful military leader who was given the titles of Duke of Magenta and Marshall of France by Napoleon III, but after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the end of the Second Empire, MacMahon was elected second President of the Third Republic of France.",
    "date": "c. 1872–1874",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.40",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79931160"
    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.40/1979.40_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1979.4"
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{
    "tec": "porcelain with gilt bronze mounts",
    "tombstone": "Vase with Portrait of President MacMahon, c. 1872–1874. Alfred-Thompson Gobert (French, 1822–1894), Constantin Renard (French), Emile-Bernard Rejoux (French, 1832-), Jean-Denis Larue (French, 1884), Jules Archelais (French, 1865–1902). Porcelain with gilt bronze mounts; overall: 89.2 x 43.8 cm (35 1/8 x 17 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection, 1979.40",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "incised gilded letters located directly below portrait relief:  \"MACMAHON\"; incised gilded letters located in complex design of ribbons above portrait:  \"AMOR  PATRIA,\"  and below:  \"SAPIENTIA,\" \"FORTITUDO\";  on primary face, beneath the ornamental surround of MacMahon's portrait:  \"Gob. R/Sèvres\";  on reverse, incised gilt numerals located within ornamental ribbon:  \"1873\"; incised in the porcelain inside neck:  \"CR 72 6\" and beneath it \"CR 72 9\";  incised letters beneath the vase:  \"NL\"; a small gilt-metal bucket is installed within the neck of the MacMahon Vase, on its bottom are scratched the letters:  \"ABF\";  printed in green inside the neck and beneath the vase:  \"s 74\";  printed in red on the lip:  a circular stamp with the words \"Decore a Sèvres 74\" surrounding the initials \"RF\" [Repbulique Français]."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1979.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 33, p. 72; Mentioned: p. 59",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667"
        },
        {
            "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. 70-71, no. 75"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.40",
    "creditline": "The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:42:33.191000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.40/1979.40_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 149645,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "porcelain with gilt bronze mounts",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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