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The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1989.71", "current_location": "241B Arts of Ancient China", "title": "Watchtower", "creation_date": "25\u2013220 CE", "creation_date_earliest": 25, "creation_date_latest": 220, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Eastern Han dynasty (25\u2013220 CE)"], "technique": "earthenware with lead glaze", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Han Dynasty", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Diameter: 39 cm (15 3/8 in.); Overall: 54.3 cm (21 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"width": 0.39, "width_inch": 15, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375}, "overall": {"height": 0.543, "height_inch": 21, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 311440, "title": "Notable Acquisitions", "description": "<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311620, "title": "Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions", "description": "<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).", "opening_date": "1994-10-18T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131989", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1989\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this funerary sculpture of the watchtower is a lively retinue of hunters, musicians, dancers, and domestic animals. The representation provides a vivid picture of the worldly enjoyment to be perpetuated in the otherworldly realm of the afterlife. A low-temperature lead glaze is applied to its earthenware body, enhancing the modeled forms with a brilliant, smooth coating like a layer of opaque glass.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60758620"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1989.71-watchtower"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 15", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n30"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \"Notable Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 127", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. 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