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"title": "Spoon with Dual Heads",
"title_in_original_language": "\uc57d\uc2dc\ud615 \uccad\ub3d9 \uc218\uc800 [\u85e5\u5319\u5f62\u9751\u9285\u5319]",
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"measurements": "Overall: 24.8 cm (9 3/4 in.)",
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{
"id": 315373,
"title": "Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ \u2013 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation",
"description": "Mountains and Rivers Beyond the DMZ \u2013 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 21-July 21, 2019).",
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"did_you_know": "Bronze spoons are the most common burial item. Scholars have proposed that toward the end of the 14th century, Koreans enjoyed meat-based soups more than any other dishes, explaining why spoons became common household items as well as burial goods.",
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"description": "This bronze spoon has dual heads: one is large, and the other small. The smaller head is believed to have been used to hold a small dose of liquid medicine.",
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{
"citation": "L.W. \"Korean Bronze Spoons of the Korai Dynasty.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 4, no. 6 (August 1917): 99-101.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 98, 101",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25136106"
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"citation": "Kungnip Munhwajae Yo\u0306n'guso (Korea), and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Miguk P'illadelp'ia Misulgwan sojang Han'guk munhwajae = Korean art collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, U.S.A. Taejo\u0306n Kwangyo\u0306ksi: Kungnip Munhwajae Yo\u0306n'guso, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 169-174, no. 197-208, Mentioned: p. 298",
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"citation": "Kungnip Cheju Pangmulgwan, and Kungnip Ch'o\u0306ngju Pangmulgwan (Korea). Ku\u0306msok kongye e kittu\u0306n Koryo\u0306in u\u0306i sam = The spirit of Goryeo in metalcrafts. So\u0306ul: Piei Tijain parhaeng, 2011.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 29, no. 16-17, Mentioned: p.97",
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},
{
"citation": "Horlyck Charlotte. \"The Eternal Link: Grave Goods of the Kory\u014f Kingdom (918-1392 CE).\" Ars Orientalis, no. 44 (2014): 156-79.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 167, no. 8-9, Mentioned: p. 167-171",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489802"
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"citation": "Cho\u0306ng, U\u0306i-do. Han'guk kodae sutkarak yo\u0306n'gu = Les cuillers en bronze de la Core\u0301e ancienne. So\u0306ul: Kyo\u0306ngin Munhwasa, 2014.",
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"citation": "Yoon, Sung-Jae. \"The aspects and meaning of spoon and chopsticks in Koryo Dynasty.\" The Journal of History and Practical Thought Studies 56 (April 2015): 51-68.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 6, no. 3; p. 7, no. 4, Mentioned: 1-18",
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},
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"citation": "Sin, Myo\u0306ng-hu\u0306i, and Kwang-so\u0306p Kim. Sam kwa yesul sok ch'o\u0306ngdong iyagi = Bronze in life and art. Ch\u2019ungch\u2019\u014fng-bukto Ch\u2019\u014fngju-si: Kungnip Ch\u2019\u014fngju Pangmulgwan, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 133-135, no. 94-96",
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},
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"citation": "McCormick, Sooa Im. \"The Past and Present of the Korean Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" In The Korean Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ch'a, Mi-rae, Kwi-suk An, Cleveland Museum of Art, \uad6d\uc678\uc18c\uc7ac\ubb38\ud654\uc7ac\uc7ac\ub2e8, and An Min-hu\u0306i, ed., 22-37. First edition, English ed. Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Series, 16. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 25, fig. 12, P. 99",
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