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"title": "Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines",
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"title": "All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection",
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"id": 665091,
"title": "A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China",
"description": "A Moveable Feast: Food Cultures in China. Hong Kong Palace Museum Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (organizer) (March 19-June 18, 2025).",
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"description": "Chinese, Gold and Silver from the T'ang Dynasty from American Collections. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (November 3, 1984-January 6, 1984); Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY (February 5-April 21, 1985)",
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"description": "David David-Weill [1871\u20131952] and Flora Rapha\u00ebl David-Weill [1878\u20131970], Paris, France, consigned to Sotheby's London for sale",
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"description": "(Sotheby's London, England, An auction of Chinese Bronzes and Objects of Art from the D. David-Weill Collection. February 29, 1972 sale. Lot no. 167. Sold to Spink & Son, Ltd.)",
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"did_you_know": "The footed tray, a foreign shape, is decorated with fantastic creatures frolicking among grapevines, a motif borrowed from Roman art.",
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"description": "Precious Sassanian and Central Asian metalwork had been imported to China as early as the 4th and 5th centuries as a result of wars and prosperous trade along the Silk Road. With the influx of foreign metalworkers to cosmopolitan Tang China, the techniques of sheet metalworking were introduced to the Chinese. This silver vessel demonstrates the effects of such east-west exchanges along the Silk Road. Its decoration with intricate gilt, incised and chased designs against a ring-punched ground is of a particularly high standard.",
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"citation": "Gyllensv\u00e4rd, Bo. \"T'ang, Gold and Silver,\" Bulletin, O\u0308stasiatiska samlingarna (Stockholm, Sweden) no. 29 (1957).",
"page_number": "figs. 58 J & K, 781, 80q",
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"citation": "Ma, John K. T. \"Saleroom News,\" Arts of Asia 2/3 (May-June 1972), p. 55.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Kelley, Clarence W.. Chinese Gold & Silver in American Collections: Tang Dynasty, A.D. 618-907. Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1984.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 345, fig. 36",
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"citation": "\"London.\" Apollo 95, no. 124 (June 1972), pp. 526\u2013527.",
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"citation": "Gao, Emily Yang. \"Meal on the Dish: Rethinking Various Types of Plates of Tang China and Their Influence on Chinese Foodways.\" In A Movable Feast: The Culture of Food and Drink in China, edited by Nicole T. C. Chiang, 88-112. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Palace Museum, 2025.",
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