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        "title": "Inlay for a Mirror or Box: Lady and Flute",
        "creation_date": "c. 900\u20131000",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1000,
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        "department": "Chinese Art",
        "collection": "China - Tang Dynasty",
        "type": "Metalwork",
        "measurements": "Overall: 4.7 x 8.4 cm (1 7/8 x 3 5/16 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 448467,
                    "title": "China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail",
                    "description": "<i>China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-12-10T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1970:  \"Year in Review 1969,\" CMA Bulletin (January 1970), p. 51, no. 229",
                    "opening_date": "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mansfield Art Center, Feb. 27-April 10, 1983",
                    "opening_date": "1983-02-27T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA 1984:  3 July-18 November 1984:  Mirrors:  Art and Symbol",
                    "opening_date": "1984-07-03T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Dayton Art Institute, \"Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty from American Collections,\" Showings:  11/3/1984-1/6/1985, Dayton; 2/5/1985-4/21/1985, Cooper Hewitt, NY",
                    "opening_date": "1984-11-03T00:00:00"
                }
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        "description": "The p'ing-t'o technique of inlaying gold and silver foil on lacquer produced luxurious articles of elegance and fragility.  These stray silver inlays were originally mounted on a mirror back or a cosmetic box whose lacquered surface has disintegrated.  They combine auspicious symbols of Indian and Chinese origin--human-headed birds whose melodies filled the Buddhist paradise, and bird-riding deities who inhabited the skies of Taoist mythology.  Like these imaginary beings, the lions were probably paired in a radial design; at least one has been lost.",
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