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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1975.10", "current_location": null, "title": "Chest for Storing Garments", "title_in_original_language": "\u5b58\u653e\u8888\u88df\u7684\u7bb1\u5b50", "creation_date": "1400s", "creation_date_earliest": 1400, "creation_date_latest": 1499, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644)"], "technique": "lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl inlay", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Lacquer", "measurements": "Overall: 43 x 56 x 54.7 cm (16 15/16 x 22 1/16 x 21 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.43, "height_inch": 16, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.56, "width_inch": 22, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "depth": 0.547, "depth_inch": 21, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 302170, "title": "Year in Review: 1975", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1975</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976).", "opening_date": "1976-02-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 304517, "title": "Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting", "description": "<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).", "opening_date": "1981-02-11T05:00:00"}, {"id": 310268, "title": "Scholar's Studio", "description": "<i>Scholar's Studio</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).", "opening_date": "1989-09-19T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311446, "title": "Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection", "description": "<i>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).", "opening_date": "1991-09-17T04:00:00"}, {"id": 318433, "title": "Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art \u2013 Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c", "description": "<i>Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art \u2013 Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019).", "opening_date": "2019-02-08T05:00:00"}, {"id": 383281, "title": "Stories from Storage", "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).", "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131975", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1975\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Lacquer chests of this type were used to store garments.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This precious lacquer box is decorated with bird and plant motifs and figures in mother-of-pearl inlay. The decoration depicts the leisurely pursuit of scholars in nature and a garden setting. Scholars play the board game <em>weiqi</em>, have philosophical conversations, pluck a <em>qin</em> (a zither-like instrument with strings), and read books. <br><br>Lacquer chests of this type were used to store garments neatly folded along their straight seams. The mother-of-pearl inlay from shells is a technique that was typically practiced by craftsmen in Hangzhou and other parts of southeast China near the sea.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79927950"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1975.10-chest-for-storing-ga"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1975.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31\u201371.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 60, 71, no. 180", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624"}, {"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1975.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 6 (June 1976): 154\u2013198.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 154", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152644"}, {"citation": "Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum = \u570b\u7acb\u6545\u5bae\u535a\u7269\u9662].<em> Hai wai yi zhen. Qi qi </em>[Chinese art in overseas collections. Lacquerware = \u6d77\u5916\u907a\u73ce. \u6f06\u5668]. Taibei Shi Shilin qu Waishuangxi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1987.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 147", "url": null}, {"citation": "\"Stories from Storage.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>24, i. 5 (May 2021): 6\u20137.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6\u20137", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Spee, Clarissa von. \u201cHave a Seat! 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