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"tombstone": "Silver Vessels, c. late 600s\u2013early 700s. Central Asia (Sogdiana) or Tibet. Silver with gilded foil; part 1: 22.9 cm (9 in.); part 2: 10.2 x 10.2 cm (4 x 4 in.); part 3: 500 g (1.1 lbs.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1988.67",
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"title": "Silver Vessels",
"creation_date": "c. late 600s\u2013early 700s",
"creation_date_earliest": 680,
"creation_date_latest": 720,
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"technique": "Silver with gilded foil",
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"department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
"collection": "Tibetan Art",
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"measurements": "Part 1: 22.9 cm (9 in.); Part 2: 10.2 x 10.2 cm (4 x 4 in.); Part 3: 500 g (1.1 lbs.)",
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{
"inscription": "Inscribed on bottom of Cup (1988.67.2): phan shing gong skyes gui sug byad [or byang]",
"inscription_translation": "\"personal possessions of the high-born princess\"",
"inscription_remark": "The incised inscription on the bottom of the Cup 1988.67.2 is in an archaic form of Tibetan.",
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{
"id": 310246,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1988",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).",
"opening_date": "1989-03-01T05:00:00"
},
{
"id": 311444,
"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
"description": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 311637,
"title": "All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection",
"description": "All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1994-11-23T05:00:00"
}
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{
"description": "Selections from the Tibetan Collection (Galleries 103\u2013104). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1993).",
"opening_date": "1993-01-01T05:00:00Z"
}
]
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{
"description": "(David Tremayne, Ltd., London, United Kingdom, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131988",
"sortorder": 1
},
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "1988\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "These banquet items may have been made specifically to be buried alongside a deceased person for use in the afterlife.",
"description": "These vessels attest to the international climate that pervaded the regions of China, Tibet, and Central Asia during the time of the expansionist Tang dynasty (618\u2013907). They are ornamented predominantly with Central Asian elements, including grape vines, beaded borders, heart-shaped motifs, and real and fantastic creatures. Stylistically, the Tibetan objects resemble the metalwork of Sogdian craftspeople, who came from the regions of modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and settled across Asia. These artists are known to have specialized in the technique of offsetting the silver repouss\u00e9 design with gilded foil, using heat and pressure to adhere the foil to the silver surface of the vessel.",
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"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1988.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30\u201375.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 231\u2013233, p. 75; Reproduced: cat. no. 231\u2013233, p. 51",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160061"
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"citation": "Czuma, Stan. \"Museum Acquisitions and Notes.\" Bulletin of the Asia Institute vol. 5 (1991), 190.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 190",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "\u201cRecent Acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art II: Departments of Asian Art: Supplement.\u201d The Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1059 (June 1991): 417\u2013424.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 419, fig. VIII",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/884779"
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J. \"Some Tibetan and Tibet-Related Acquisitions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" Oriental Art, winter 1992/3, vol. 38, no. 4.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 231; Reproduced: p. 232.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Czuma, Stan. \"Tibetan Silver Vessels.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (April 1993): 131\u2013135.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 134; Mentioned: pp. 131\u2013135",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161400"
},
{
"citation": "Carter, Martha L. \"Three Silver Vessels from Tibet's Earliest Historical Era: A Preliminary Study.\" Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998) 22-47.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22-31, figs. 1-9c",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079697"
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"citation": "Heller, Amy. Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, 600-2000 A.D. Milano, Italy; Woodbridge, England: Jaca Book; Antique Collectors\u2019 Club, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8 and 11, pls. 3, 4, 13, and 14.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Christman, Bruce. \"Three Gilded Tibetan Vessels.\" In Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation. Terry Drayman-Weisser, ed. London: Archetype Publications Ltd. in association with the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2000.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 10.1, p. 169; fig. 10.3, p. 172",
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},
{
"citation": "Heller, Amy. \"The Silver Jug of the Lhasa Jokhang: Some observations on silver objects and costumes from the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th century).\" Asianart.com, published July 18, 2002.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 33 and fig. 34 (cup only)",
"url": "https://www.asianart.com/articles/heller/index.html#33"
},
{
"citation": "\"Silk Road Art and Archaeology.\" Silk Road art and archaeology: journal of the Institute of Silk Road Studies, Kamakura, vol. 9 (2003).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 17, p. 224",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Huo, Wei. \u201cA Study of Ancient Tibetan Gold and Silver Ware.\u201d Chinese Archaeology 12, no. 1 (November 2012): 165\u201374. doi:10.1515/char-2012-0020.",
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"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Heller, Amy. \u201cTibetan Inscriptions on Ancient silver and gold Vessels and Artefacts.\u201d Journal of the International Association for Bon Research, vol 1. (2013). Mentioned: footnote 38, p. 274; pp. 276\u20138. Reproduced: p. 277.",
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"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 216",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Kosmin, Paul. \"Banqueting on the Move.\" In Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings. Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., 310-341. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 338, p. 384, cat. no. 62",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Debreczeny, Karl. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 3.5, pp. 8-9 and p. 76",
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"citation": "Pritzker, David Thomas and Wang Xudong \u738b\u65ed\u4e1c, editors. Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road: Masterpieces of the Tubo Period (7th-9th Century) = \u4e1d\u7ef8\u4e4b\u8def\u4e0a\u7684\u6587\u5316\u4ea4\u6d41 : \u5410\u8543\u65f6\u671f\u827a\u672f\u73cd\u54c1. Beijing: \u4e2d\u56fd\u85cf\u5b66\u51fa\u7248\u793e [China Tibetology Publishing House], 2020.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 15, p. 31 (vase only)",
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"citation": "Heller, Amy. \u201cSilver Jug: Ceremonial Banquet Vessels in Silver and Gold,\u201d Project Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, 2023, https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/.",
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"citation": "Heller, Amy. \u201cSilver Jug: Ceremonial Banquet Vessels in Silver and Gold.\u201d Project Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, 2023.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 5 and fig. 6 (cup only)",
"url": "https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/essays/silver-jug/"
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