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{
    "localId": "409",
    "label": "Barbarians and Envoys Bring Tribute to the Emperor",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.51"
}

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    "id": "409",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.51",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Barbarians and Envoys Bring Tribute to the Emperor",
    "description": "This handscroll, in the style of the 12th-13th century, is said to depict envoys from the territories around China's periphery bringing tribute to the Han [Han] Dynasty emperor in the 1st century BC.",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 298]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "16th-17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.51",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "emakimono",
        "hand scrolls"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.51_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.51_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.51_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 29.7,
            "height": 286.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 11/16 x L: 112 13/16 in. (29.7 x 286.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Spurious signature of Qian Xuan [Ch'ien Hsuan] (ca. 1235-after 1301); [Inscription] At end on painting; [Seal] Two seals at end on painting.",
    "dynasty": "Ming [Ming] Dynasty-Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and color on silk mounted on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "18006",
        "6238",
        "18007"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_35.51_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9da671ce862cdfbf"
}