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        "tombstone": "Chicken-Headed Ewer, 220\u2013589 CE. China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589). Green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware; overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald, 1973.84",
        "current_location": "239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork",
        "title": "Chicken-Headed Ewer",
        "creation_date": "220\u2013589 CE",
        "creation_date_earliest": 220,
        "creation_date_latest": 589,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "China, Zhejiang province, Southern Dynasties period (420-589)"
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        "technique": "green-glazed stoneware with incised, carved and applied decoration, Yue ware",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Chinese Art",
        "collection": "China - Southern Dynasties",
        "type": "Ceramic",
        "measurements": "Overall: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)",
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                "height": 0.235
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 309887,
                    "title": "The Twain Shall Meet",
                    "description": "<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-10-30T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 311620,
                    "title": "Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions",
                    "description": "<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).",
                    "opening_date": "1994-10-18T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
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                {
                    "description": "<em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. </em>Los Angeles, CA (March 14-April 27, 1952).",
                    "opening_date": "1952-03-14T05:00:00Z"
                }
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                "description": "Mr. and Mrs. John D. MacDonald, Cambridge, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131973",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1973\u2013",
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        "description": "The development of high-fired celadon in the south was a significant achievement in Chinese ceramics history. The ewer's shape was indigenous and appeared to have been transformed from the <em>hu</em> (jar) attached with a small chicken head. Whereas the early chicken-headed ewers have a wide, stout body, this example represents a further development toward more elongated proportions, adding the decoration of carved lotus petals.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60741562"
            ],
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1973.84-chicken-headed-ewer"
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Trubner, Henry. <em>Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch'ien Lung; A Loan Exhibition from Collections in America and Japan. March 14 to April 27, 1952</em>. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1952.",
                "page_number": "cat. no. 52",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 87, no. 92",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 322; Mentioned: p. 322, 324, 347",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"
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