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{
    "localId": "97692",
    "label": "Spoon with Dual Heads",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "97692",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Spoon with Dual Heads",
    "description": "This bronze spoon has dual heads: one is large, and the other small. The smaller head is believed to have been used to hold a small dose of liquid medicine.",
    "date": "918–1392",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.335",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778808"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.335/1917.335_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.335/1917.335_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.335/1917.335_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 28 cm (11 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1917.335"
}

{
    "tec": "silver bronze",
    "tombstone": "Spoon with Dual Heads (약시형 은동 수저 [藥匙形銀銅匙]), 918–1392. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Silver bronze; overall: 28 cm (11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, General Income Fund, 1917.335",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "약시형 은동 수저 [藥匙形銀銅匙]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "Bronze spoons are the most common burial item. Scholars have proposed that toward the end of the 14th century, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why spoons became common household items as well as burial goods.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "L. W. \"Korean Bronze Spoons of the Korai Dynasty.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 6 (1917): 99-101.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 99-101",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136106"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Horlyck, Charlotte. \"The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Koryŏ Kingdom (918-1392 CE).\"<em> Ars Orientalis,</em> no. 44 (2014): 156-79.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489802"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yun, Seong-jae. “The Special Meanings of Spoons and Chopsticks in the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 분묘출토 청동수저].” <em>Yeoksa wa silhak</em> (2015): 51-68.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE06339542"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Bronze in Life and Art</em> [삶과 예술 속. 청동 靑銅 이야기] National Cheongju Museum (2016)."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Jeong, Eui-do. Changes of Spoons during the Late Goryeo Period [고려후기 숟가락의 변화].” <em>Hanguk jungse gogohak</em> (2017): 139-157.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07262104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo: The Glory of Korea </em>[대고려, 그 찬란한 도전]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2018."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, and 국외소재문화재재단. <em>The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Edited by An Min-hŭi. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 99"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.335",
    "creditline": "General Income Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:15:55.156000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.335/1917.335_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97692,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "silver bronze",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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