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"title": "1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei",
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"title": "China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail",
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"description": "Samuel Hubert Minkenhof [1879\u20131956], Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, NY",
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"description": "(C.T. Loo \u76e7\u82b9\u9f4b [1880\u20131957], Paris, France, and New York, NY, purchased with funds from Homer H. Tielke Jr. [1918\u20132004] for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "A four-horse chariot and a two-horse chariot are both depicted in this hunting scene.",
"description": "The inside of this shell preserves the earliest, extant figure paintings in Chinese history.",
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"citation": "Vassar College. Chinese Painting: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition May 22 to June 10, 1940. Poughkeepsie, NY: The Gallery, 1940.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. nos. 1, 2, pl. 1",
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"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. 812",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n144"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Early Chinese Painted Shells with Hunting Scenes.\" Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 11 (1957): 69\u201375.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 69\u201375; Reproduced: p. 71, figs. 1a, 2a, 3a",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: color pl. 6",
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"citation": "Li, Dun Jen. The Ageless Chinese, A History. New York: Scribner, 1965.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 114",
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"citation": "Toynbee, Arnold, and Else\u0301 Glahn. Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 37, pl. 12",
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