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        "tombstone": "Pilgrim Bottle (stopper), c. 1715. Meissen Porcelain Factory (German, est. c. 1710). Polished red stoneware, silver-gilt mounts; overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1951.451.b",
        "current_location": "216A French and German",
        "title": "Pilgrim Bottle (stopper)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1715",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1710,
        "creation_date_latest": 1720,
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            "Germany, Meissen, 18th century"
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        "department": "Decorative Art and Design",
        "collection": "Decorative Arts",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Overall: 15.9 x 9.6 cm (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)",
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                "height": 0.159,
                "height_inch": 6,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.25,
                "width": 0.096,
                "width_inch": 3,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.75
            }
        },
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 188842,
                    "title": "Conserving the Past for the Future",
                    "description": "<i>Conserving the Past for the Future</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).",
                    "opening_date": "2001-03-04T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
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            {
                "description": "(Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131951",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1951\u2013",
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            }
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        "description": "About 1708, as a by-product of his efforts to produce porcelain, B\u00f6ttger developed a fine red stoneware, so hard that it could be polished on a lapidary's wheel--as was the body of this small bottle. Red stoneware was part of the usual production of the Meissen factory during its first decade.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60749848"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 311",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n61"
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 129",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n153"
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 129",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n153"
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 164",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n184"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 55, no. 57",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Von Spee, Clarissa. \"China's Southern Paradise: Treasures From the Lower Yangzi Delta At the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Arts of Asia (</em>Winter 2023): 98-104.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104, fig. 10",
                "url": ""
            }
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.451.b",
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                "biography": "the first and for half a century the best in Europe. It set a high standard which was emulated everywhere, even in China. Founded in 1710 as the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, at Meissen, near Dresden.",
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        "date_text": "c. 1715",
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        "cover_accession_number": "1951.451",
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:39:12.050000"
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