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    "localId": "154241",
    "label": "Tea Caddy (Chaire)",
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    "id": "154241",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tea Caddy (Chaire)",
    "description": "Negoro is a lacquer technique, named after the Negoro temple in Japan, in which several layers of red lacquer are applied over a black lacquer undercoating. Through years of handling, a natural surface of red and black random patterns emerges, an aesthetic highly prized by the Japanese.",
    "date": "1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.56",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)"
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    "tec": "Negoro lacquer on wood",
    "tombstone": "Tea Caddy (Chaire), 1500s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Negoro lacquer on wood; diameter: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.56",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. <em>The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan</em>. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 122"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:58:29.561000",
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