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    "localId": "393707",
    "label": "Rim for a Monteith Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "393707",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Rim for a Monteith Bowl",
    "description": "This bowl’s notched rim allows for glasses to be suspended in water for cooling and cleansing between courses during a long dinner. The rim can be removed and the bowl used for punch as well. A year before Benjamin Pyne began this bowl, he was appointed Subordinate Goldsmith to the King in preparation for George I’s coronation (r. 1714–1727). Like much of his work, this Monteith bowl is characterized by its scale and simplicity.",
    "date": "1715–16",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.467.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117244828"
    ],
    "creators": [
        8799
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Silver"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.467.b/1965.467.b_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 32.9 cm (12 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, London"
    ],
    "accession": "1965.467.b"
}

{
    "tec": "silver gilt",
    "tombstone": "Rim for a Monteith Bowl, 1715–16. Benjamin Pyne (English, active 1693–1727). Silver gilt; diameter: 32.9 cm (12 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren H. Corning, 1965.467.b",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "engraved, center of bowl: arms, crest of Byam family (mantling and helmet were probably engraved at time bowl was made, crest and arms were altered to those of Byam at later date).  Rim engraved with Byam Crest (also presumably not original)."
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The name Monteith is said to come from a mythical Scotsman named Monteigh, who wore cloaks with a similar notched pattern.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Golden Anniversary Acquisitions: September 10 through October 16.\"<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>53, no. 7 (September 1966): 181-284.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 277; Reproduced: p. 224, listed no. 14",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25152110"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Birk, Eileen F. \"Current and Coming - Anniversary Year Celebrations.\" <em>Antiques</em> 90 (September 1966).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 286",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=STIDN&submit=Search&request=0003-5939"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 151",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n175"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 192",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n212"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Georgina E., and Ronald A. Lee. <em>Monteith Bowls, Including American and European Examples</em>. Byfleet: Manor House Press, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 46; Reproduced: pl. 47",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=5099949"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.467.b",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren H. Corning",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:58:47.255000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.467.b/1965.467.b_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 393707,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "silver gilt",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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