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    "localId": "10632",
    "label": "Brush Washer with Dragon Medallions",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.694"
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    "id": "10632",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Brush Washer with Dragon Medallions",
    "description": "Water pots for washing brushes of this shape are named for their resemblance to a beehive or a dome-shaped chicken-coop (with a small opening on the top for feeding chicks). This washer has a wide round foot, a domed body, and a short and narrow neck forming a small round opening at the top. A carved wooden stand also accompanies this vessel. Lightly etched in low under-glaze relief are three equidistant medallions replicating archaic jade motifs of highly stylized dragons. The grayish porcelain is covered with translucent white glaze.",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1710-1722 (Kangxi)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.694",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vessels"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Reign mark] in underglaze blue: da qing kang xi nian zhi",
    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Kangxi (1662-1722)",
    "med": "porcelain with white glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "CHN"
    ],
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}

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