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        "tombstone": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Design of Pine, Camellia, and Bamboo (lid) (\u677e\u693f\u7af9\u8494\u7d75\u786f\u7bb1), 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392\u20131573). Lacquered wood with gold and silver sprinkled powder (maki-e); overall: 24.2 x 22.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1969.124.b",
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        "title": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Design of Pine, Camellia, and Bamboo (lid)",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u677e\u693f\u7af9\u8494\u7d75\u786f\u7bb1",
        "creation_date": "1400s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1400,
        "creation_date_latest": 1499,
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            "Japan, Muromachi period (1392\u20131573)"
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        "technique": "Lacquered wood with gold and silver sprinkled powder (maki-e)",
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        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "Japanese Art",
        "type": "Lacquer",
        "measurements": "Overall: 24.2 x 22.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.)",
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                "height": 0.242,
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                {
                    "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970: Year in Review 1969.",
                    "opening_date": "1969-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120); March 11, 2003 - July 13, 2004.",
                    "opening_date": "2003-03-11T00:00:00"
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            {
                "description": "(Setsu Gatod\u014d Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131969",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1969\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "The combination of pine, bamboo, and plum is a common seasonal motif; here the plum is replaced with camellia.",
        "description": "Writing boxes were indispensible personal possessions for the literate of medieval Japan. Beyond containing the tools for artistic expression and communication such as an ink stone, writing brushes, and a water dropper, writing boxes often featured scenes from classical literature or symbolic motifs rendered in a wide array of complex lacquer techniques.",
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "\u201cArt of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.\u201d <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 24 (1970): 86\u2013117.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 107",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1969.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (January 1970): 2\u201351.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 51, no. 238",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307"
            },
            {
                "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. 378",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n398"
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