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Severance Fund, 1957.61", "current_location": "238 Chinese Ceramics", "title": "Wine Cup with Children at Play", "title_in_original_language": "\u6597\u5f69\u5a74\u620f\u676f", "creation_date": "1465\u201387", "creation_date_earliest": 1465, "creation_date_latest": 1487, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Chenghua mark and period (1465-1487)"], "technique": "porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel decoration, docai (\"joined colors\") ware", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.048, "height_inch": 1, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "\u5927\u660e\u6210\u5316\u5e74\u88fd", "inscription_translation": "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi (Made in the Ming dynasty, Chenghua reign)", "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 309564, "title": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-06-20T04:00:00"}, {"id": 196054, "title": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).", "opening_date": "2009-06-27T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Ming Porcelains</em>. China House Gallery, New York, NY (October 29, 1970-January 31, 1971).", "opening_date": "1970-10-29T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration</em>. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992).", "opening_date": "1991-10-12T04:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Men-Chu Wang, Beijing, China. Probably Palace Collection", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Frank Caro [1904\u20131980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131957", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1957\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Chenghua ware demonstrates one of the high points of technological accomplishment in Chinese porcelain production.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This delicate wine cup, only two inches high, exhibits free, spontaneous drawing as well as perfect compositional balance over its small surface area. The motifs were outlined with cobalt blue; the piece was then glazed and fired in the normal way for making the blue-and-white ware. 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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 266", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n290"}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1967.", "page_number": "p. 67", "url": null}, {"citation": "Moore, Janet Gaylord. <em>The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: World Pub. Co., 1968.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 117", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 266", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n290"}, {"citation": "Valenstein, Suzanne G. <em>Ming Porcelains: A Retrospective: Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition from Museum and Private Collections in the United States, October 29, 1970 Through January 31, 1971</em>. New York: China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1970.", "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 52", "url": null}, {"citation": "Ayers, John. \"Ming Porcelains at China House Gallery, New York,\" <em>The Connoisseur</em>, November 1970.", "page_number": "Reproduced:  p. 189", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 354", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n374"}, {"citation": "Moore, Janet Gaylord. <em>The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan</em>. Cleveland: Collins, 1979.", "page_number": "Reproduced:  pp. 79 and 87", "url": null}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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