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    "localId": "154721",
    "label": "Dish with Zhang Guolao",
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    "id": "154721",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Zhang Guolao",
    "description": "Zhang Guolao, featured on this dish, is one of the Eight Immortals and a gifted magician who was believed to know the secret arts to obtain longevity. Typically depicted as an old man and accompanied by his mule, he is the patron saint of artists. His mule is said to be magical; it can be folded up like a piece of paper to fit into a small bag. The central scene is framed by a sumptuously gold-decorated rim showing spaces reserved for landscape scenes in primarily fresh blue and green colors.",
    "date": "1662–1722",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.306",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79942125"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.306/1989.306_web.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.306/1989.306_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 4.6 x 19.8 cm (1 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)"
    ],
    "accession": "1989.306"
}

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    "tec": "porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel and painted gold decoration (interior) and powder blue glaze with painted decoration (exterior)",
    "tombstone": "Dish with Zhang Guolao, 1662–1722. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722). Porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel and painted gold decoration (interior) and powder blue glaze with painted decoration (exterior); diameter: 4.6 x 19.8 cm (1 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1989.306",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大清康熙年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Da Qing Kangxi nianzhi (Made in the Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign)"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 67, p. 73"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.306",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:00:54.672000",
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    "sourceId": 154721,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel and painted gold decoration (interior) and powder blue glaze with painted decoration (exterior)",
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    "image_url": null
}

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