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    "localId": "149865",
    "label": "Kettle with Crane Design",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "149865",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Kettle with Crane Design",
    "description": "Water supplied from a jar such as the fine Shino-ware vessel (<a href=\"https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.9\"><u>CMA 1972.9.a-b</u></a>) was transferred to an iron kettle for boiling as part of the tea ceremony. Former CMA director Sherman Lee described the jagged, broken skirt of this kettle as \"attractively damaged,\" complementing the unobtrusive wispy designs on its rough metal surface. The character of this kettle—worn, coarse, the \"perfection\" of symmetry destroyed—was cherished by tea masters for its powerful humility.",
    "date": "1392–1573",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.11",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79931627"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.11/1980.11_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.11/1980.11_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.11/1980.11_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 30.4 cm (11 15/16 in.); Diameter of mouth: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); Overall: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.); with handle: 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)"
    ],
    "accession": "1980.11"
}

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    "tec": "iron",
    "tombstone": "Kettle with Crane Design, 1392–1573. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Iron; diameter: 30.4 cm (11 15/16 in.); diameter of mouth: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); overall: 18.2 cm (7 3/16 in.); with handle: 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1980.11",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue</em>. New York: Japan Society, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 60, no. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 208; Mentioned: p. 219, no. 293",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 62"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.11",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:43:44.342000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.11/1980.11_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 149865,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "iron",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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