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    "localId": "34451",
    "label": "Three-clawed dragon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1619"
}

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    "id": "34451",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1619",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Three-clawed dragon",
    "description": "Large flower container decorated in full relief with a three-clawed dragon winding in and out of the vase. Two oblong frames near the foot, one with four characters and the other with six characters.",
    "provenance": "Wakai Kanesaburo, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 (?); William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1619",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vases"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 50.5,
            "height": 46.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19 7/8 x 18 1/8 in. (50.5 x 46.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "konen rokujusan sai tounsai chu; [Translation] Cast by 63 year old Tounsai",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5508"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "244"
    ]
}

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