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{
    "localId": "12600",
    "label": "Box (ko-bako) for the Incense Game in shape of two intersecting books",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.64"
}

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    "id": "12600",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.64",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box (ko-bako) for the Incense Game in shape of two intersecting books",
    "description": "A gold lacquer ko-bako in the shape of two intersecting \"books\", one open and the other closed. Open \"book\" decorated with camellias (tsubaki), a winding stream, and a kingfisher; closed book with pine twigs, cloud layers, and an inscription in a cartouche (title) {flowers amd birds, wind and moon}; exterior sides of lid and box with hanabishi designDesign in hiramakie in gold with sections in togidashi; background of fundame in gold; exterior sides of box with fundame in gold; interior and bottom with yasuriko-nashiji",
    "date": "early 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.64",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "incense containers",
        "ko-bako"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.9,
            "height": 13.7,
            "depth": 7.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 15/16 × W: 5 3/8 × D: 2 15/16 in. (4.9 × 13.7 × 7.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "kacho fugetsu",
    "med": "Gold lacquer",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2687"
    ]
}

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