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    "localId": "16006",
    "label": "Tea Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2119"
}

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    "id": "16006",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2119",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tea Bowl",
    "description": "Raku ware such as this bowl is a renowned type of Japanese pottery. This pottery type was highly appreciated by tea masters in Japan for being hand-sculpted, which in their opinion lent a purity and unpretentiousness to the objects. Furthermore, the rustic and minimalist character of raku ware exemplifies the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi—an appreciation of the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2119",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "tea bowls"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Raku ware",
    "med": "Earthenware ceramic, glaze (Raku)",
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    ],
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    ],
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    ]
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