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    "localId": "447707",
    "label": "Pine-shaped Dish",
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    "id": "447707",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Pine-shaped Dish",
    "description": "The clever design on this stoneware Awata-style dish makes use of the interior and exterior surfaces to present a close-up view of pine needles on the branch painted in underglaze iron oxide. The branch is shown on the outside of one side of the dish, while the needles fan out across the inside. The entire dish, when seen from above, reveals a shape resembling the mushroom cap–like motif appearing in textile designs and in classical Japanese paintings called Yamato-e to represent pine trees.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.182",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); length: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); width: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.182"
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    "tec": "Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide and crackled glaze",
    "tombstone": "Pine-shaped Dish, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide and crackled glaze; height: 6 cm (2 3/8 in.); length: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.); width: 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.182",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Awata ware, named for the area of Kyoto where it was historically produced, is considered a subset of Kyoto ware. It is characterized by a very light brown body with a transparent crackled glaze.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 38, p. 111"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.182",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:01:39.586000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide and crackled glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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}

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