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    "localId": "448068",
    "label": "Cover for a Qingbai Ware Bowl",
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    "id": "448068",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cover for a Qingbai Ware Bowl",
    "description": "While dark-glazed ceramics resemble black lacquer ware, and celadons were often compared to green jade, white or bluish-white glazed stoneware imitates silver. Here, broad silver bands around the bowls’ rims accentuate their precious appearance. The incised petals are inspired by lotus flowers and the domed covers by their circular leaves. The lotus motif often indicates the use of an object in a Buddhist context, in which it is a symbol of purity as its flowers emerge unsullied from the mud of lakes and ponds. Alternatively, these bowls may have been used to hold food at banquets.",
    "date": "1100s–1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.173.1.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117247016"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Lid: 4 x 15.3 cm (1 9/16 x 6 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "South China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)"
    ],
    "accession": "2020.173.1.b"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, Qingbai ware",
    "tombstone": "Cover for a Qingbai Ware Bowl, 1100s–1200s. South China, Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, Qingbai ware; lid: 4 x 15.3 cm (1 9/16 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.173.1.b",
    "collection": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "The kilns in which <em>qingbai</em> ware were fired used pine wood as fuel, preventing oxidation and creating the distinct blue-green tint.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Vainker, S. J.<em> Chinese Pottery and Porcelain</em>. London: British Museum, 2005."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Von Spee, Clarissa. \"Chinese Ceramics and Works on Paper.\" In <em>The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194–229. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 206–207; Mentioned: pp. 259–261"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.173.1.b",
    "creditline": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-11 12:17:41.252000",
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    "sourceId": 448068,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Song Dynasty",
    "med": "Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, Qingbai ware",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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