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    "localId": "519639",
    "label": "Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes",
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    "id": "519639",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes",
    "description": "According to the box lid, this set of six side dishes, or <em>mukōzuke</em>, are “snow-flower style” (<em>sekkashiki</em>), having mouths shaped like snowflakes. Their mouths, which have six lobes and scalloped edges, are traced with brown iron oxide at the rim. The outside of each bowl is glazed with a very bright pink over the basin and foot, and the inside is left white. From directly above, one sees a snowflake-like shape, and from the side, they seem to float above a rosy ground.",
    "date": "1893–1914",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.194.6",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "creators": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194.6/2022.194.6_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194.6/2022.194.6_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.194.6/2022.194.6_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)"
    ],
    "accession": "2022.194.6"
}

{
    "tec": "One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze",
    "tombstone": "Dish from Snow-Flake Side Dishes, 1893–1914. Seifū Yohei III (Japanese, 1851–1914). One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze; overall: 5 x 13.5 cm (1 15/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Christine Heusinger, 2022.194.6",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The box for this set of dishes has an inscription on the side noting that they were for a person with the family name Nakamoto.",
    "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. 50, p. 125"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.194.6",
    "creditline": "Gift of James and Christine Heusinger",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:07:17.114000",
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    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "One from a set of six porcelain dishes; porcelain with lobed rims and pink glaze",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male",
        "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
    ],
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    "image_url": null
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