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    "localId": "11158",
    "label": "Tsuba with Peacock Feathers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1179.2"
}

{
    "id": "11158",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1179.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Peacock Feathers",
    "description": "This tsuba is designed as several overlapping peacock feathers. The eyes at the end of the feathers are decorated with copper and shakudo. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st half 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1179.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1179.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 平安　永田直寛; [Translation] Nagata Naohiro (kao)",
    "med": "silver, copper, shakudo, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1947"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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