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{
    "localId": "22305",
    "label": "One of a Pair of Vases with Doves and  Apricots",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.689"
}

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    "id": "22305",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.689",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "One of a Pair of Vases with Doves and  Apricots",
    "description": "This vase, a pair with Walters 44.688, depicts multicolored doves on flowering apricot branches against a midnight-blue ground.  Borders at the base and neck are geometric patterns inspired by Japanese textiles.  The mounts and cloisons are silver.  There is a mottled shakudo and gold surface inside the neck and on the bottom.",
    "provenance": "Stephen W. Fisher [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1994, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1895 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.689",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.689_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (19 x 8 cm) (h. x diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "med": "silver-wire and wireless cloisonné enamel, shakudo, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2748"
    ]
}

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