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{
    "localId": "13347",
    "label": "Snuff Bottle with Figures in Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.704"
}

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    "id": "13347",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.704",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snuff Bottle with Figures in Landscape",
    "description": "This enamel on metal snuff bottle is of Cantonese origin and has enamel work/decoration depicting figures in a verdant landscape including a four-character Qianlong [Ch'ien-lung] reign mark on the base which may be of the period or immediately therafter, late 18th or early 19th centuries.  A typical metal stopper finishes the composition.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Marvin E. Gantz, Sr., Denver, Colorado [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Shirley E. Gantz, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1999, by gift.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (Ch'ing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.704",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "snuff bottles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_44.704_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_44.704_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.6,
            "height": 4.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (5.6 x 4.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Reign Mark] Four-character mark of Qianlong [Ch'ien-lung] (1736-1795) in black enamel",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "enamels on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "76"
    ]
}

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