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    "localId": "17071",
    "label": "Snuff Bottle with Butterflies and Melon Vine",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.76"
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    "id": "17071",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.76",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snuff Bottle with Butterflies and Melon Vine",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 2nd quarter 19th century (?)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.76",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "snuff bottles"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.2,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/16 × W: 2 1/16 × D: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 × 5.3 × 5.3 cm)"
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{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "style": "famille verte",
    "inscriptions": "[Mark] four character mark in blue enamel: Yung lo tang zhi [Yung lo t'ang chih]; [Translation] the hall of perpetual joy",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "porcelain, enamels",
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