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    "localId": "34053",
    "label": "Box for the Incense Game (ko-bako) with Flowers of the Four Seasons",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.80"
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    "id": "34053",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.80",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box for the Incense Game (ko-bako) with Flowers of the Four Seasons",
    "description": "A gold lacquer rectangular ko-bako on four low feet with ovrlapping lid and containing an interior tray and four interior covered boxes; two longer sides cut away in a long curve. Top of lid and exterior side with various kinds of overlapping chrysanthemum blossoms; interior tray decorated with partly lowered bamboo blinds from hollyhock leaves (aoi) hang down; interior boxes with different patterns as background for sprays of plum, cherry, iris, and chrysanthemumsDesign in togidashi in gold, red, brown, and silvery lacquer of various shades; interior tray with design of hiramakie and applied gold foil on background of hirame in gold on black ro-iro; interior lid, body of box, and bottom of tray with dense nashiji; design of four interior boxes in hiramakie with touches of red, interior with nashiji; all rims with kinji",
    "provenance": "Grande Compagnie (Kiryu Kosho Kaisha), Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.80",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "incense containers",
        "ko-bako"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6,
            "height": 14.5,
            "depth": 15.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/8 × W: 5 11/16 × D: 6 in. (6 × 14.5 × 15.3 cm); Outer box base H: 1 15/16 × W: 5 D: 11/16 × 6 in. (5 × 14.5 × 15.3 cm); Outer lid H: 1 11/16 × W: 5 11/16 × D: 5 1/2 in. (4.3 × 14.5 × 13.9 cm); Tray H: 9/16 × W: 5 1/2 × D: 5 1/4 in. (1.4 × 13.9 × 13.3 cm); Overall Inner box .4 & .5 H: 13/16 × W: 2 1/2 × D: 2 5/8 in. (2 × 6.3 × 6.6 cm); Inner box base .4 H: 7/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (1.1 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Inner box lid .5 H: 3/8 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (0.9 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Overall inner box .6 & .7 H: 3/4 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 11/16 in. (1.9 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm); Inner box base .6 H: 5/8 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 11/16 in. (1.6 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm); Inner box lid .7 H: 5/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 11/16 in. (0.8 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm); Overall inner box .8 & .9 H: 13/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (2 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Inner box base .8 H: 5/8 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (1.6 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Inner box lid .9 H: 5/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (0.8 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Overall inner box .10 & .11 H: 3/4 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (1.9 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Inner box base .10 H: 1/2 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (1.2 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm); Inner box lid .11 H: 5/16 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 2 1/2 in. (0.8 × 6.6 × 6.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "med": "gold, black, and silvery lacquer, gold foil over wood",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2381",
        "2687",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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