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{
    "localId": "16302",
    "label": "Vase with Blossoming Plum and Short Poem",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1912"
}

{
    "id": "16302",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1912",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase with Blossoming Plum and Short Poem",
    "description": "Around the year 950, the emperor received an anonymous poem that made him change his mind about removing an ancient plum tree that had recently died: \"Since my lord commands, what can I do but obey; but the nightingales, when they ask about their nests-- whatever can I tell them?\"  The character for \"nightingale\" is perched upon the branch; amazingly, it (and the other characters) consists of colored clay, inserted into the cutout wall of the vessel.",
    "provenance": "Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, December, 1904, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1904 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1912",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_49.1912_Prof_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_49.1912_Prof_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_49.1912_Prof_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 24,
    "pageCount": 68,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.6,
            "height": 31.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 14 x Diam: 12 5/16 in. (35.56 x 31.24 cm); Vase H: 12 1/2 x Diam: 12 5/16 in. (31.75 x 31.24 cm); Wooden Base H: 2 1/2 x Diam: 9 in. (6.35 x 22.86 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Poem Transcription] Choku nareba itomo kashikoshi uguisu no yado wa to towaba ikaga kotaemu / Ki no Tsurayuki onna;  [Poem Translation] Since my Lord commands",
        "what can one do but obey? But the nightingales",
        "when they ask about their nests- whatever can I tell them? (Poem written by Ki no Naishi",
        "the daughter of the famous Heian-period poet Ki no Tsurayuki (ca.872-945));  [Seal] Xuande [Hsuan-te];  [Transcription] Makuzu gama Kozan sei;  [Translation] Made by Kozan",
        "Makuzu kiln;  [Sticker] Japanese export sticker 1904"
    ],
    "med": "porcelain with underglaze blue, pink, and yellow",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2866"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2351",
        "753",
        "942"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_49.1912_VwC_DD_AST18-029126-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1a2fdede218e4c68"
}