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    "localId": "29777",
    "label": "Song Birds, Herons, Rock, and Flowering Plants and Tree",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.36"
}

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    "id": "29777",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.36",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Song Birds, Herons, Rock, and Flowering Plants and Tree",
    "description": "This painting is the work of someone in the circle of the eminent artist Lan Ying (1585-after 1664)--perhaps the unidentified \"Tai Wan\" (most likely a woman), whose signature appears on it.",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 224]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.36",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS2_35.36_MrkA_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 178.4,
            "height": 91.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 70 1/4 x W: 36 in. (178.4 x 91.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Seal] Lower right",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and colors on silk, mounted on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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