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    "localId": "34690",
    "label": "Snuff Bottle with Figures in Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.703"
}

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    "id": "34690",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.703",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snuff Bottle with Figures in Landscape",
    "description": "This enamel on metal snuff bottle was very attractively painted and then fired illustrating figures in a garden-like landscape. The neck has a traditional key motif border and an original metal stopper. On the underside is a black Qianlong [Ch'ien-lung] mark underglaze. This is a probably the work of Cantonese crafstmen in the late 18th or early 19th century and constitutes a pair with Walters 44.704 despite having unique illustrations.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Marvin E. Gantz, Sr., Denver, Colorado [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Shirley E. Gantz, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1999, by gift.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (Ch'ing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.703",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "snuff bottles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_44.703_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.7,
            "height": 4.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 1/4 x 1 5/8 in. (5.7 x 4.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Reign Mark] Four-character mark of Qianlong [Ch'ien-lung] (1736-1795) in black enamel",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": 13347,
    "med": "enamels on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "76"
    ]
}

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