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{
    "localId": "18678",
    "label": "Elephant Tusk Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1092"
}

{
    "id": "18678",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1092",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Elephant Tusk Vase",
    "description": "This vase has been carved to depict a family of monkeys, and wasps.",
    "provenance": "Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.1092",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_71.1092_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_71.1092_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_71.1092_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 10,
    "pageCount": 10,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Mori Sosen Style",
    "inscriptions": "[Seal] Natsume",
    "med": "carved ivory tusk in sunken and low relief and slightly stained",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7120"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3673"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_71.1092_Fnt_TR_T90II-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "391d2cf9a9e63304"
}