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    "localId": "447761",
    "label": "Sake Cups with Dragons",
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    "id": "447761",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sake Cups with Dragons",
    "description": "Each of these sake cups pictures two backward-looking dragons. The highly stylized creatures resemble jade carvings.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.239",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.239/2022.239_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.239"
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    "tec": "Set of six sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue and iron oxide rims",
    "tombstone": "Sake Cups with Dragons, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). Set of six sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue and iron oxide rims; height (each): 5 cm (1 15/16 in.); diameter (each): 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.239",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大日本清風造",
            "inscription_translation": "Inscription on base of each cup: \"Made by Seifu of Great Japan\"",
            "sortorder": 1
        },
        {
            "inscription": "清風",
            "inscription_translation": "Seal on the top of the box lid: “Seifū”",
            "sortorder": 2
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Seifū Yohei III was inspired by the Chinese mythical animals that were common on porcelain objects made at Jingdezhen in China during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and then exported around the world.",
    "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. 97, p. 187"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:02:07.835000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Set of six sake cups; porcelain with underglaze blue and iron oxide rims",
    "creatorTags": [
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        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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