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    "id": "97532",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Jar",
    "description": "The jar is painted with vibrant underglaze cobalt blue depicting the four seasons and stages in the life of a scholar-official.<br> <br>In the first scene, a scholar leaves his home in spring hoping to pass the civil service examinations in the city. In the autumn scene, he successfully returns on a horse, prepared for a career at court. The summer scene shows him as an aged man watching his offspring play along a lake. The winter scene depicts him writing while attendants offer him hot tea and break the ice for fresh water from the pond in the foreground.",
    "date": "1522–66",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 34.6 cm (13 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Jiajing mark and reign (1522–66)"
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    "accession": "1917.13"
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    "tec": "porcelain with underglaze blue decoration",
    "tombstone": "Jar (青花瓷罐), 1522–66. China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen kilns, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Jiajing mark and reign (1522–66). Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; overall: 34.6 cm (13 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection, 1917.13",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "青花瓷罐",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "大明嘉靖年製",
            "inscription_translation": "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi",
            "inscription_remark": "Made in the Ming dynasty, Jiajing period"
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    "didYouKnow": "The jar with brilliant cobalt blue decoration depicts the four seasons and stages in the life of a scholar-official.",
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    "creditline": "Worcester R. Warner Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:15:37.509000",
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