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    "localId": "154733",
    "label": "Dish with Laozi Riding a Water Buffalo (interior); Pavilion and Immortals in Rocky Landscape (exterior)",
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    "id": "154733",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish with Laozi Riding a Water Buffalo (interior); Pavilion and Immortals in Rocky Landscape (exterior)",
    "description": "Daoism traces its origins to Laozi, a sage believed to have lived in the sixth century BC, who was the reputed author of the <em>Daode jing</em> (Classic of the Way), a fundamental text for Daoism. The interior of this dish depicts the elderly Laozi riding a buffalo. He is accompanied by three servants and is greeted by a scholarlike figure. <br> <br>This dish borrows brush and shading techniques typically employed by artists who paint on paper or silk, a development frequently seen in porcelain decoration around the 1700s.",
    "date": "1723–35",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.315",
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    "language": "en",
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        "Ceramic"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.315/1989.315_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 19.9 cm (7 13/16 in.); Overall: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng reign (1723-35)"
    ],
    "accession": "1989.315"
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    "tec": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
    "tombstone": "Dish with Laozi Riding a Water Buffalo (interior); Pavilion and Immortals in Rocky Landscape (exterior), 1723–35. China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Yongzheng reign (1723-35). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 19.9 cm (7 13/16 in.); overall: 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1989.315",
    "collection": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大明成化年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Apocryphal inscription reading: Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi (Made in the Ming dynasty, Chenghua reign)"
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Sotheby's London. <em>Important Oriental Ceramics; Works of Art</em>. 28 May 1968.",
            "page_number": "p. 47, lot 123"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 63, p. 72"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.315",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:00:51.468000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.315/1989.315_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 154733,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Qing Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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