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{
    "localId": "38655",
    "label": "Designs for Inro and Other Lacquers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.166"
}

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    "id": "38655",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.166",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Designs for Inro and Other Lacquers",
    "description": "A very rare Japanese pattern book which contains 373 tipped-in slips of paper with sketches in ink, some lightly colored. Yoyusai seems to have compiled the album not strictly to use as patterns but as a collection of motifs and sketches he liked.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [accessioned 1991].",
    "date": "1801 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.166",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "sketchbooks"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_35.166_Fnt21B_TR_T96IIB.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 19.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 5/8 in. (27 x 19.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] Kyowa gan kanoto-tori ku-gatsu; [Translation] First year of Kyowa (1801) ninth month; [Signature] Hara Kumejiro",
    "med": "ink and colors on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5481"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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