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    "localId": "98767",
    "label": "Saucer with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design",
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    "id": "98767",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Saucer with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design",
    "description": "During the Goryeo period (918–1392), about 260 kilns operated in mainly Jeolla and Chungcheong provinces, meeting a high consumer demand. Celadon wares for everyday use such as this dish were among the most common burial objects in elites' tombs. Furnishing tombs with an elaborate assemblage of objects was believed to honor and comfort the newly dead. Generally, Goryeo tombs were left untouched until the late 19th century. During the colonial period (1910–45), however, Japanese archaeologists competitively excavated the tombs located in Kaeseong, the former capital of the Goryeo period, and these wares soon became available for Japanese and Western collectors.",
    "date": "1200s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.448",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79485572"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.448/1918.448_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.448/1918.448_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.448/1918.448_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of mouth: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); Overall: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392)"
    ],
    "accession": "1918.448"
}

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    "tec": "pottery",
    "tombstone": "Saucer with Inlaid Chrysanthemum Design (청자 상감 국화무늬 접시 [靑磁象嵌菊花文皿]), 1200s. Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392). Pottery; diameter of mouth: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); overall: 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John L. Severance, 1918.448",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "청자 상감 국화무늬 접시 [靑磁象嵌菊花文皿]",
    "collection": "Korean Art",
    "didYouKnow": "On the base of this tea bowl, three small spur marks made of bits of clay remain visible, indicating an individual protective casing of fire clay (<em>saggar</em>).",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Warner, Lorraine D'O. \"Korean Grave Pottery of the Korai Dynasty.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 3 (1919): 46-58.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 48 fig. 2; Mentioned: p. 46",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136270"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392</em>. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Young-hee. \"The Study on Techniques and their Interrelations among Craft Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty [고려시대 공예기법 연구 상호관련성을 중심으로].\" <em>Misulsa hakbo</em> 22 (2004): 133–170.",
            "url": "https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE00557781"
        },
        {
            "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. 66"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.448",
    "creditline": "Gift of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:20:07.099000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.448/1918.448_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 98767,
    "dept": "Korean Art",
    "coll": "Korean Art",
    "med": "pottery",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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