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    "localId": "13887",
    "label": "Snuff Bottle in the Form of a Miniature Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2530"
}

{
    "id": "13887",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2530",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snuff Bottle in the Form of a Miniature Vase",
    "description": "This unusual meatllic brown jarlet has a matte iron-rust type glaze with a deep and even brownish-gray color suffused with suspended particles of a silvery tone. The base is also glazed and the undressed foot reveals the hard white porcelain.",
    "provenance": "Mineral Arts and Antiques [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Dr. and Mrs. Edward J. Hoffman, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1983, by gift.",
    "date": "18th-19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2530",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "snuff bottles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_49.2530_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_49.2530_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain with mottled iron-brown glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "76"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_49.2530_Fnt_BW_T84.jpg",
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