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    "localId": "10767",
    "label": "Spitoon with Dragon and Cloud Design",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1082"
}

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    "id": "10767",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1082",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spitoon with Dragon and Cloud Design",
    "description": "This spittoon is decorated with a design that wraps around the entire vessel. There are two dragons, one on each register of the vessel, each in pursuit of a pearl.  The background of the two dragons in pursuit of a pearl is painted with clouds.  The foot of the vessel has no decoration.",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1820-1850",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1082",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_49.1082_SideB_BW_PL90.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_49.1082_SideB_BW_PL90.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "mark: made for the studio of quiet stillness",
    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Daoguang (1820-1850)",
    "med": "porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze coral red (oxidized to gray) enamels",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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