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"title": "Cylindrical Jar",
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"title": "Chinese Landscape Painting",
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"title": "Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China",
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"title": "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia",
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"description": "? Exhibition. Mus\u00e9e des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris, France (1914).",
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"description": "The Ke\u0301le\u0301kian Collection of Ancient Chinese Potteries. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1917).",
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"description": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).",
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"description": "Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 10-April 10, 1988).",
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"description": "(Dikran G. Kelekian [1867\u20131951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "? by 1914\u20131948",
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"did_you_know": "The three feet are in the form of seated bears holding cubs.",
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"description": "Vessels like this often are call \"hill jars\" since many survive with conical covers shaped in rising peaks. \"Squatting bear\" feet and false animal-mask ring handles are common to the group. This cylinder has been molded in two relief bands depicting hills and three populated with a medley of real and imaginary creatures. Wispy human-like figures are associated with a popular cult of Taoism prevalent in China during the Han Dynasty. The scene may represent a paradise of immortality idealized by that cult and appropriate to this vessel's offering as a burial gift. When excavated from Han tombs, similar jars have been found to hold animal bones or powder; they may have served as food or cosmetic containers. Regardless of symbolism or function, this piece provides evidence for the appearance of early landscape lost in more fragile media.",
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