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"tombstone": "Vase with Floral Scrolls, 900s\u20131000s. China, Henan province, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Glazed stoneware with incised and slip-inlaid decoration, Cizhou ware; diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); overall: 41.3 cm (16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1948.226",
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"title": "Vase with Floral Scrolls",
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"title": "The Colors of Ink",
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"title": "Freedom of Clay and Brush: Tz'u Chou Type Wares",
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"title": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).",
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"id": 410853,
"title": "Chinese Ceramics",
"description": "Chinese Ceramics. Tokyo National Museum (organizer) (October 12-November 23, 1994).",
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},
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"id": 221814,
"title": "Song Porcelain",
"description": "Song Porcelain. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (March 6-April 13, 1999); Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka, Japan (April 25-June 13, 1999); Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi (June 20-August 15, 1999).",
"opening_date": "1999-03-06T00:00:00"
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"description": "Chinese Ceramics. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952). p. 90, fig. 228",
"opening_date": "1952-03-14T05:00:00Z"
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"description": "Selected Sung Ceramics. The Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, Japan (April 26-May 2, 1955).",
"opening_date": "1955-04-26T04:00:00Z"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).",
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"description": "(Charles D. Kelekian [1900\u20131982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "Cizhou ware characteristically shows the use of slip coating, bold designs, and color contrasts to achieve stunning visual effects. This extremely rare and handsome vase is distinguished by its remarkable rhythmic execution of the floral designs achieved by the use of incised and slip-inlaid decoration. With firing, the slip coating and inlaid decoration assumed a soft ivory color whereas the exposed clay body displayed a warm cinnamon brown.",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"More Sung Dynasty Stoneware.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 36, no. 1 (January 1949): 13\u201314.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10; Mentioned: p. 14",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n147"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n279"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Mino, Yutaka, and Katherine R. Tsiang. Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of At, 1981.",
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"citation": "Hasebe, Gakuji \u9577\u8c37\u90e8\u697d\u723e. So\u0304ji: shinpin to yobareta yakimono [\u5b8b\u78c1 : \u795e\u54c1\u3068\u3088\u3070\u308c\u305f\u3084\u304d\u3082\u306e = Song ceramics]. Japan: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
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"citation": "Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 164, fig. 93",
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