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        "title": "Amphora Vase",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.)",
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                "inscription": "Yongzheng mark",
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                "description": "Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "date": "?-1944",
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        "description": "This elegant vase, modeled in the shape of an amphora with dragon handles has perfect symmetry. Its celadon glaze is of exceptional purity and of subtle green color, all characteristics of classical Yongzheng-era monochrome porcelains. <br><br>The amphora shape and dragon handles of this vase, seen earlier in the glazed stoneware of the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907), were revived during the Yongzheng period for achieving \"antique-elegance\" (<em>guya</em>) in aesthetics as well as technical perfection in ceramic art.<br><br>Only four vases of this size and glaze are known to exist.",
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                "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection; Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Published as: Vase in Shape of T'ang Amphora with Ovoid Body, Tall Neck, with \"Bamboo Joints\" and Projecting Lip.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 82; Reproduced: Plate XXXVII",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n81"
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                "citation": "Hollis, Howard. \u201cChinese and Korean Ceramics: Japanese Lacquer.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 103\u2013106.",
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