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        "accession_number": "1961.9",
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        "tombstone": "Covered Bowl (\u00c9cuelle), c. 1755. Mennecy Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; overall: 9.9 x 13.1 cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1961.9",
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        "title": "Covered Bowl (\u00c9cuelle)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1755",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1745,
        "creation_date_latest": 1765,
        "artists_tags": [
            "gender unknown"
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            "France, Mennecy, 18th century"
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        "technique": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration",
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        "department": "Decorative Art and Design",
        "collection": "Decorative Arts",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Overall: 9.9 x 13.1 cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.)",
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                "height": 0.099,
                "height_inch": 3,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.875,
                "width": 0.131,
                "width_inch": 5,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "[Incised]: \"D,V\"",
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                "inscription_remark": null,
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 302039,
                    "title": "Year in Review (1961)",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review (1961)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).",
                    "opening_date": "1961-11-01T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.",
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                "date": null,
                "sortorder": null
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        ],
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        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "The name <em>\u00e9ceulle </em>originates from the oak, or <em>esculus</em>, that was used to make early medieval bowls of a similar shape.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Members of the 18th-century French social elite would participate in a lengthy ritual of washing and dressing called the <em>toilette</em>. Along with hair and make-up, this process, which bordered on performance, would also leave time to eat. Small, two handled bowls like this one were used for broths or soups consumed by an individual in the bedroom or boudoir.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80031451"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1961.9-covered-broth-bowl-e",
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1961.9-covered-bowl-ecuelle"
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Hawley, Henry. \"Ceramics of the Rococo Age.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48 (March 1961).",
                "page_number": "p. 53-54; fig. 4",
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            }
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        "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
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                "biography": "Founded in Paris in 1734, it was transferred to Mennecy in 1748 and to Bourg-la-Reine in 1773. After 1753 it was much restricted by laws imposed to protect the Vincennes factory. Only soft-paste porcelain was made.",
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                "role": "manufacturer",
                "biography": "Duc de Villeroy was the sponsor of this factory. Established c. 1749",
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        "date_text": "c. 1755",
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        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:59:41.968000"
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