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    "localId": "20520",
    "label": "Netsuke Depicting Writing Materials",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.835"
}

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    "id": "20520",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.835",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Netsuke Depicting Writing Materials",
    "description": "This netsuke (toggle) is carved with Japanese writing implements, including brushes, an inkstick, inkstone, water-dropper, jars for brushes, paper and a writing box. Writing instruments, which have long had functional, symbolic, and aesthetic value in Japan, were collected by the Japanese intellectual elite and often decorated objects and textiles.",
    "date": "2nd half 19th century (Meiji period (1868-1912))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.835",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "netsuke"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.835_Back_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.4,
            "height": 3.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 5/16 x W: 1 1/4 in. (3.4 x 3.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Gyokuho; [Seal] Hozan (?)",
    "dynasty": "Meiji period (1868-1912)",
    "med": "whale tooth",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4499"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2759"
    ]
}

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