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{
    "localId": "14016",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Bird in a Tree",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.353"
}

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    "id": "14016",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.353",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Bird in a Tree",
    "description": "A dead tree extends along the right edge of this tsuba. At its top, just above the hole for the hair pick, sits a bird. On the reverse are faint indications of a landscape.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (?) (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.353",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.353_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Place] 武州江戸住; [Transliteration] Bushû Edo jû; [Translation] Residing in Edo",
        "Bushu [province]; [Signature] 重光作之; [Transliteration] Shigemitsu kore o tsukuru; [Translation] this was made by Shigemitsu"
    ],
    "med": "sentoku, gold and silver details",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4417"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.353_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ad29a24ebc21dccb"
}