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    "localId": "153340",
    "label": "Incense Burner (Boshan Lu)",
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    "id": "153340",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Incense Burner (Boshan Lu)",
    "description": "The conical cover of this incense burner represents a miniature mountain with hunting scenes. The cover was shrouded in mist and emanated intoxicating smoke through its openwork when fragrant woods and herbs were burnt in its stem cup, transporting its beholder into an imaginative realm.",
    "date": "200–100 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.46",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.); Overall: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); Lid: 7.8 x 9.1 cm (3 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Container: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE)"
    ],
    "accession": "1986.46"
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    "tec": "bronze",
    "tombstone": "Incense Burner (Boshan Lu) (博山爐), 200–100 BCE. China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Bronze; diameter: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); lid: 7.8 x 9.1 cm (3 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.); container: 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1986.46",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "博山爐",
    "collection": "China - Han Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "Deities (appearing as hunters) and fantastic beasts roam freely among mists and clouds on this incense burner.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 74, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38–79.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77, no. 218",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Delacour, Catherine.<em> La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'être : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010</em>. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 180; Reproduced: p. 181, cat.29.1"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-17 11:19:44.735000",
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    "sourceId": 153340,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Han Dynasty",
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    "image_url": null
}

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