{
"data": {
"id": 125563,
"accession_number": "1947.495",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Jug with Running Animals, 1150\u20131220. Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037\u20131194). Fritware with design in carved and underglaze-painted slip (\"silhouette\" ware); overall: 13 x 14 cm (5 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.); diameter of rim: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1947.495",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Jug with Running Animals",
"creation_date": "1150\u20131220",
"creation_date_earliest": 1150,
"creation_date_latest": 1220,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"Iran, probably Kashan, Seljuq period of Iran (1037\u20131194)"
],
"technique": "fritware with design in carved and underglaze-painted slip (\"silhouette\" ware)",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Islamic Art",
"collection": "Islamic Art",
"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "Overall: 13 x 14 cm (5 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.); Diameter of rim: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.13,
"height_inch": 5,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.125,
"width": 0.14,
"width_inch": 5,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.5
},
"diameter of rim": {
"width": 0.089,
"width_inch": 3,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.5
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 355703,
"title": "Persian Decorative Art",
"description": "Persian Decorative Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 15-March 16, 1952).",
"opening_date": "1952-01-15T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 520298,
"title": "Iranian Ceramics",
"description": "Iranian Ceramics. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 2-December 15, 1963).",
"opening_date": "1963-10-02T04:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "?-1947",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": [],
"date": "1947-",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [],
"did_you_know": null,
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "\"Silhouette\" ware continues the tradition of painting with slip (liquefied clay) directly on the white body beneath the glaze. On this jug, thick black slip was applied and then carved with a knife to create the design of running animals and pseudo-script.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756700"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1947.495-jug-with-running-ani"
]
},
"citations": [
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 700",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n128"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 211",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n235"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 211",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n235"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 267",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n287"
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 29, fig. 31",
"url": null
}
],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.495",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_web.jpg",
"width": "1027",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "81655",
"filename": "1947.495_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "2957",
"filesize": "780689",
"filename": "1947.495_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_full.tif",
"width": "5481",
"height": "4767",
"filesize": "78409076",
"filename": "1947.495_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "1033",
"height": "893",
"filesize": "83566"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "2940",
"filesize": "791883"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.495/1947.495_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "5331",
"height": "4610",
"filesize": "73753924"
},
"date_created": "2012-08-06T12:40:26",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Edward L. Whittemore Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 125563,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1947-12-19T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1150,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "1150\u20131220",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "object",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": null,
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"Pottery Jug"
],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:29:05.700000"
}
}