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    "localId": "18232",
    "label": "Chanting Poems in Leisure Among Pines",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208A"
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    "id": "18232",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208A",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Chanting Poems in Leisure Among Pines",
    "description": "Shen Chou (1427-1509), a leading scholar-painter of the Ming Dynasty, was known for his spare brushwork.",
    "provenance": "Fine Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy and Rubbings Sale (8474), Christie's, New York, September 18, 1996, lot no. 179; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1687",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "albums (books)",
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    "source": "import",
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            "width": 38,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 15/16 x W: 10 13/16 in. (38 x 27.5 cm)"
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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "In the style of Shih-t'ien Old Man (i.e. Shen Chou); Ch'a Shih-piao",
        "native of Hsing-shang (i.e. Hsiu-ning County",
        "Chiangsu Province); [Seal] Ch'a Erh-chan"
    ],
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        "16126"
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