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    "localId": "36385",
    "label": "Tsuba with Chinese Lions Among Clouds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.295"
}

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    "id": "36385",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.295",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Chinese Lions Among Clouds",
    "description": "Two Chinese style lions are depicted on this tsuba. The body of one forms most of the top edge, while the second lion is at the bottom. Swirling clouds complete the tsuba. These stylized lions are called \"Shishi\" lions or Fu dogs. They do not resemble actual lions because their iconography was developed in China from painted images of lions brought into China. Lions are not native to either China or Japan.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.295",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.6,
            "height": 7.4,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 x W: 2 15/16 x D: 3/16 in. (7.63 x 7.41 x 0.46 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Seal] 椙浦; [Transliteration] Sugiura; [Signature] 行宗作; [Translation] Yukimune saku",
    "med": "silver alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5796"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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}