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    "localId": "11247",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Cricket and Dragonfly in Bush Clover",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.187"
}

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    "id": "11247",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.187",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Cricket and Dragonfly in Bush Clover",
    "description": "The right side of this tsuba is dominated by flowering bush clover. At the bottom is a cricket. The bush clovers wraps around to the reverse of the tsuba, where a dragon fly is at the upper right. A stream runs along the bottom. The artist's signature is on a gold cartouche.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.187",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.187_Mrk_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6,
            "height": 5.5,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 5/16 x 2 1/8 x 3/16 in. (5.95 x 5.46 x 0.45 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Tamagawa School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 玉川美英; [Translation] Tamagawa Yoshihide",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, silver,copper, shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3097"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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}