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    "localId": "38241",
    "label": "Garden Recreations",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.8"
}

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    "id": "38241",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.8",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Garden Recreations",
    "description": "In the yard, a boy lights a firecracker as others either make music or huddle together. Younger women play a game, and a senior couple gestures to them. What a blissful time! Paintings in this style were executed by artists attached to the court of the Qianlong emperor (1736-95).Spurious signature of Ch'iu Ying (1494-1552).",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 60]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-early 19th century (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.8",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 151.5,
            "height": 79
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 59 5/8 x W: 31 1/8 in. (151.5 x 79 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Lower right; [Seal] Lower right",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and colors on silk mounted on paper",
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        "17952"
    ],
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        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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