{"data": {"id": 169510, "accession_number": "2011.34", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design (\u96d5\u6f06\u96d9\u7dac\u5e36\u9ce5\u7261\u4e39\u7d0b\u5713\u76d2), c. 1300. China, late Southern Song (1127\u20131279) to early Yuan dynasty (1271\u20131368). Carved lacquer; overall: 21 x 40.6 cm (8 1/4 x 16 in.); lid: 8.5 x 40.6 cm (3 3/8 x 16 in.); bottom: 12.5 x 40.6 cm (4 15/16 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2011.34", "current_location": null, "title": "Round Box with Bird and Peonies Design", "title_in_original_language": "\u96d5\u6f06\u96d9\u7dac\u5e36\u9ce5\u7261\u4e39\u7d0b\u5713\u76d2", "creation_date": "c. 1300", "creation_date_earliest": 1290, "creation_date_latest": 1310, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, late Southern Song (1127\u20131279) to early Yuan dynasty (1271\u20131368)"], "technique": "carved lacquer", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Song Dynasty", "type": "Lacquer", "measurements": "Overall: 21 x 40.6 cm (8 1/4 x 16 in.); Lid: 8.5 x 40.6 cm (3 3/8 x 16 in.); Bottom: 12.5 x 40.6 cm (4 15/16 x 16 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.21, "height_inch": 8, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "lid": {"height": 0.085, "height_inch": 3, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "bottom": {"height": 0.125, "height_inch": 4, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "\u5c71", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": "Both the interior of the cover and the base are inscribed with the Chinese character \"shan,\" meaning mountain.", "sortorder": 1}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 395234, "title": "China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta", "description": "<i>China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).", "opening_date": "2023-09-10T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 100)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29, 2011-September 20, 2011).", "opening_date": "2011-07-29T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 241)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 5, 2013-January 9, 2015).", "opening_date": "2013-12-05T05:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Takashi Yanagi at Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20132011", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2011\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Lacquer ware was always a valuable product in Chinese material culture and was often used as precious gifts in diplomatic, religious, and economic exchanges with other countries\u2014Japan, for example, where this box was long preserved and acquired.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The carved lacquer box and lobed silver container nearby both feature pairs of birds and flowers on their covers. There is a striking similarity in decoration, shape, and aesthetic appeal. Both boxes suggest that successful designs and shapes circulated among craftsmen, workshops, and beyond regional borders.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80076898"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2011.34-round-box-with-decor", "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2011.34-round-box-with-bird"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Garner, Harry Mason. <em>Chinese Lacquer</em>. London: Faber, 1979.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Tokugawa Bijutsukan \u5fb3\u5ddd\u7f8e\u8853\u9928, and Nezu Bijutsukan \u6839\u6d25\u7f8e\u8853\u9928. <em>Cho\u0304shitsu: urushi no reri\u0304fu</em> [\u5f6b\u6f06 : \u3046\u308b\u3057\u306e\u30ec\u30ea\u30fc\u30d5 = Carved lacquer]. [Nagoya-shi]: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 1984.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Watt, James C. Y., and Barbara Brennan Ford.<em> East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Karamono shikki: Chu\u0304goku, Cho\u0304sen, Ryu\u0304kyu\u0304 </em>[\u5510\u7269\u6f06\u5668 : \u4e2d\u56fd\u30fb\u671d\u9bae\u30fb\u7409\u7403 = Karamono: Imported Lacquerwork-Chinese, Korean, and Ryukyuan (Okinawa)]. Nagoya-shi: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 1997.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>So\u0304 Gen no bi: denrai no shikki to chu\u0304shin ni </em>[\u5b8b\u5143\u306e\u7f8e : \u4f1d\u6765\u306e\u6f06\u5668\u3092\u4e2d\u5fc3\u306b = Colors and forms of Song and Yuan China - featuring lacquerwares, ceramics and metalwares]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Nezu Bijutsukan, 2004.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Negrotti, Rosanna<em>.</em>\"Acquisition of the Year.\" <em>Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, </em>December 2011, Vol. 174, Issue 593, pp. 62\u201373.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 64, fig. 4", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 10, 108\u2013109", "url": ""}, {"citation": "\u201cArt of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2010-2011.\u201d <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 62 (2012): 105\u2013153.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 10", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/43677806"}, {"citation": "Franklin, David. \u201cRecent Acquisitions (2005\u201411) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d <em>The Burlington Magazine</em> 154, no. 1312 (2012): 525\u2013532.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. II, pp. 525", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/23232806"}, {"citation": "Springer, Samantha. \"Re-examining the Cleveland Carved Lacquer Box: The Conservator's Perspective.\" <em>Orientations</em>; Vol. 44 No. 8 (November/December 2013), 76\u201378.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 76\u201378, Fig. 1-4", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa Von Spee. 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