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    "localId": "18429",
    "label": "Kashira with Spiny Lobster",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.921"
}

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    "id": "18429",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.921",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kashira with Spiny Lobster",
    "description": "A spiny lobster is depicted in copper with gold and shakudo details. This is part of a set with Walters 51.920.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 18th-early 19th century (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.921",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "kashira",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shakudo, copper, gold, gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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