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    "localId": "154695",
    "label": "Dice Bowl",
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    "id": "154695",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dice Bowl",
    "description": "The Chinese connoisseurs use the poetic term \"snowflake blue\" to describe the mottling effects of white blotches amid tones of blue colored with cobalt oxide. Such aesthetic effects were achieved by blowing the glaze through a bamboo tube onto the ceramic surfaces.",
    "date": "1426–35",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.287",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); Overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and period (1426-1435)"
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    "accession": "1989.287"
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    "tec": "porcelain with mottled blue glaze",
    "tombstone": "Dice Bowl, 1426–35. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Xuande mark and period (1426-1435). Porcelain with mottled blue glaze; diameter: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); overall: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1989.287",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大明宣德年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Da Ming Xuande nianzhi (Made in the Ming dynasty, Xuande period)",
            "inscription_remark": "Six character mark of Xuande within a double circle in underglaze-blue in the interior."
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 46"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:00:28.104000",
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