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    "localId": "5644",
    "label": "Fuchi with Herons and Reeds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.3A"
}

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    "id": "5644",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.3A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Herons and Reeds",
    "description": "On the front of the fuchi, two herons stand beneath reeds. Decorative rocks are on the right side. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1838 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.3A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 天保九年戊戌冬仲; [Transliteration] Tempô kyû nen tsuchinoe inu tôchû; [Translation] Tempo 9 (1838)",
        "year of the dog",
        "mid winter; [Signature] 壽翁斎　石黒正美; [Translation] Juôsai Ishiguro Masayoshi (kao)"
    ],
    "med": "copper, gold, shakudo, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4500"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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