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    "localId": "97971",
    "label": "Figures Depicting the Four Seasons",
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}

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    "id": "97971",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Figures Depicting the Four Seasons",
    "description": "In this group depicting the four seasons, a young boy in ice skates represents winter; a young lady adorns her hair with flowers in spring; a young man guards his beehive in summer; and a girl gathers fruit in autumn.",
    "date": "c. 1775",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_web.jpg",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Part 1: 28.4 x 16.2 x 13.7 cm (11 3/16 x 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.); Part 2: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); Part 3: 27 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (10 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); Part 4: 27.2 x 13 x 11.5 cm (10 11/16 x 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, Bristol"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.611"
}

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    "tec": "hard-paste porcelain",
    "tombstone": "Figures Depicting the Four Seasons, c. 1775. Bristol Porcelain Factory (British, 1770–81). Hard-paste porcelain; part 1: 28.4 x 16.2 x 13.7 cm (11 3/16 x 6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.); part 2: 27 x 14.5 x 9.4 cm (10 5/8 x 5 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.); part 3: 27 x 15.9 x 11.7 cm (10 5/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.); part 4: 27.2 x 13 x 11.5 cm (10 11/16 x 5 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness, 1917.611",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "didYouKnow": "Allegorical figures most often decorated a table during the dessert course, providing amusing subjects for conversation.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Bequest of Mrs. Charles W. Harkness.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 4 (1917): 63.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136090"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.<br>Only <em>Summer </em>(1917.611.3) and <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.<br>Only <em>Summer </em>(1917.611.3) and <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n14"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"The Bequests of Mary Warden Harkness: A Tribute and an Accounting.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 43-50",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 43",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137106"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"European Porcelains Bequeathed by Mary Warden Harkness.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>15, no. 2 part II (February 1928): 57-59",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 59",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137108"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.<br>Only <em>Autumn</em> (1917.611.2) reproduced. Incorrectly published as <em>Spring </em>(1917.611.1).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 267",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n55"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.611",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Mary Warden Harkness",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:17:12.586000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.611/1917.611_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97971,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "hard-paste porcelain",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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