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    "localId": "104992",
    "label": "Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women",
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    "id": "104992",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women",
    "description": "Reassembled from 34 fragments, this cup bears ancient decoration that has been made more legible through modern repainting and re-incising, or re-scratching, of the internal details of figures and rosettes. Because they are irreversible and potentially misleading, such modern interventions are no longer seen as acceptable; when sold in 1922, the cup was described as “repaired,” albeit without additional explanation.",
    "date": "c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.221",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79516220"
    ],
    "creators": [
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    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.221/1923.221_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); Overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Corinthian"
    ],
    "accession": "1923.221"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "Black-Figure Kotyle (Drinking Cup): Chain of Women, c. 590–560 BCE, with modern repainting and reincising. Attributed to Patras Painter (Greek, Middle Corinthian). Ceramic; diameter: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); overall: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1923.221",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "The Patras Painter specialized in decorating drinking cups, often with chains of women.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.",
            "page_number": "#495",
            "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/5564/rec/1"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Anderson Galleries, Inc. <em>Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Indian, Chinese and European Collections of Vladimir Simkhovitch</em>. Sales Catalog, 12-14 January 1922.",
            "page_number": "p. 31, lot 255."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Amyx, Darrell A. <em>Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period</em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.",
            "page_number": "p. 188, AP4"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.221",
    "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:39:34.487000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.221/1923.221_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 104992,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
    "creatorTags": [
        "gender unknown"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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