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    "localId": "6050",
    "label": "Tsuba with Abstract Plant Motif",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "6050",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1196.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Abstract Plant Motif",
    "description": "Both sides of the tsuba are decorated with an abstracted design of a vine in gold inlay. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century (?) (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1196.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "sword components"
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    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.6,
            "height": 4.4,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 x W: 1 3/4 x D: 3/16 in. (5.6 x 4.4 x 0.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shakudo, gold",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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