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        "id": 97005,
        "accession_number": "1916.65",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Rubbing of Imperial Procession with Empress, taken from Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) Central Binyang Cave, Longmen, Henan Province (\u79ae\u4f5b\u5716\u62d3\u7247\uff0c\u51fa\u81ea\u5317\u9b4f\uff08386-534\uff09\u9f8d\u9580\u8cd3\u967d\u4e2d\u6d1e\uff0c\u6cb3\u5357\u7701), 1910\u201316. China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) or Republican period (1912-49). Rubbing; rubbing only: 205.6 x 388.4 cm (80 15/16 x 152 15/16 in.); overall: 227.3 x 406.4 cm (89 1/2 x 160 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Yamanaka & Company, 1916.65",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Rubbing of Imperial Procession with Empress, taken from Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) Central Binyang Cave, Longmen, Henan Province",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u79ae\u4f5b\u5716\u62d3\u7247\uff0c\u51fa\u81ea\u5317\u9b4f\uff08386-534\uff09\u9f8d\u9580\u8cd3\u967d\u4e2d\u6d1e\uff0c\u6cb3\u5357\u7701",
        "creation_date": "1910\u201316",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1910,
        "creation_date_latest": 1916,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) or Republican period (1912-49)"
        ],
        "technique": "rubbing",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Chinese Art",
        "collection": "Chinese Art",
        "type": "Miscellaneous",
        "measurements": "Rubbing only: 205.6 x 388.4 cm (80 15/16 x 152 15/16 in.); Overall: 227.3 x 406.4 cm (89 1/2 x 160 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 2.273,
                "height_inch": 89,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.5,
                "width": 4.064,
                "width_inch": 160,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.0
            },
            "rubbing only": {
                "height": 2.056,
                "height_inch": 80,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
                "width": 3.884,
                "width_inch": 152,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 394917,
                    "title": "From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (\u5f9e\u77f3\u7a9f\u5230\u5893\u7960\u2014\u77f3\u523b\u62d3\u7247)",
                    "description": "<i>From Caves to Tombs: Chinese Pictorial Rubbings from Stone Reliefs (\u5f9e\u77f3\u7a9f\u5230\u5893\u7960\u2014\u77f3\u523b\u62d3\u7247)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-November 14, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-06-11T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "<em>Chinese Art Gallery XIII</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1919).",
                    "opening_date": "1919-01-01T05:00:00Z"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "?-1916",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "1916-",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
        ],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "A rubbing is taken directly from a carved stone\u2019s surface, so the resulting image has the same orientation as the original carving.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This rubbing was taken from stone reliefs commissioned by the Northern Wei emperor Xuanwu (reigned 500\u2013515) in honor of his deceased parents.<br> <br>In this rubbing, the empress mother is in the center, crowned with an elaborate headdress and attended by an entourage of palace ladies. The empress mother is about to place an incense stick into a censer held by a lady on the left side. Other attendants carry offerings for the Buddha, such as lotus flowers, a symbol of purity in Buddhism.<br> <br>The second part of the imperial procession, showing the emperor with male attendants, is depicted in another rubbing in the CMA collection, 1916.64.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79480994"
            ],
            "internet_archive": []
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Coleman, Fletcher. \"Encountering Chinese sculpture in America: the early pedagogy and exhibition of monumental ink rubbings from Longmen\" <em>Orientations </em>51, no. 1 (January/February 2020): 92-102.",
                "page_number": "Reproduction: p.95, fig. 3; Mention: p. 92; p.102",
                "url": null
            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.65",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Gift of Yamanaka & Company",
        "image_credit": null,
        "sketchfab_id": null,
        "sketchfab_url": null,
        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 97005,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1916-03-09T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1910,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1910\u201316",
        "collapse_artists": false,
        "on_loan": false,
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        "record_type": "object",
        "conservation_statement": null,
        "has_conservation_images": false,
        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [
            "Rubbing"
        ],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:46:13.171000"
    }
}