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    "localId": "37249",
    "label": "Incense Burner with Brocade Pattern",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.696"
}

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    "id": "37249",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.696",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Burner with Brocade Pattern",
    "description": "This cloisonné covered \"koro\" (incense burner) has applied cloisonné handles and finial.  It is decorated with designs of small paintings from nature, chrysanthemums, and \"takara-mono\" \"precious things- symbols of wealth, longevity, wisdom, beauty, harmony, purity, and protection from ill-omen.",
    "provenance": "Stephen W. Fisher [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1995, by gift.",
    "date": "1880-1889 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.696",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "incense burners"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.7,
            "height": 14
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 x 5 1/2 in. (12.7 x 13.97 cm) (h. x diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Kyoto-Jippo",
    "med": "gilt-wire cloisonné enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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