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"tombstone": "Alms Bowl, c. 900s. Japan, Heian period (794\u20131185). Gilt bronze; overall: 12.8 x 23.8 cm (5 1/16 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1949.156",
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"title": "Alms Bowl",
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"measurements": "Overall: 12.8 x 23.8 cm (5 1/16 x 9 3/8 in.)",
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"title": "Japanese Decorative Style",
"description": "Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).",
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"id": 516412,
"title": "Japanese Arts of the Heian Period",
"description": "Japanese Arts of the Heian Period. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 5, 1967-February 19, 1968).",
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"id": 291838,
"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2017-01-09T05:00:00"
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"description": "Japanese Arts of the Heian Period: 794-1185. Asia House Gallery, New York City, NY (October 5-December 17, 1967) and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (January 17-February 25, 1968).",
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"description": "(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "Alms bowls used by Buddhist monks to receive donations have traditionally been made of iron or wood. This bowl, made of gilt bronze and decorated with incised designs of birds and flowers in roundels as well as butterflies, is instead a luxury item likely meant for a Buddhist altar, where it would have contained offerings for a Buddhist deity.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cImportant Acquisitions of Japanese Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 38, no. 9, 1951, pp. 211\u2013217.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 212",
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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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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 19",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n31"
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"citation": "Feddersen, Martin. Japanese Decorative Art, A Handbook for Collectors and Connoisseurs. London: Faber and Faber, 1962.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 76",
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"citation": "Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185. [New York]: Asia Society, 1967.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 92 and 123, cat. no. 41",
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"citation": "Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 23",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \"The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951.\" In Great Waves & Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160\u2013197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.",
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"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report of the Year 1958.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (June 1959): 111\u2013158.",
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