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    "localId": "20762",
    "label": "Tsuba with Geese and Plum Blossoms",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1274.2"
}

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    "id": "20762",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1274.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Geese and Plum Blossoms",
    "description": "At the top of the tsuba are two geese in flight. A branch of plum blossoms is along the lower edge. On the reverse, a cresent moons hangs over a small stream. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1274.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 寶竜斎壽次; [Translation] Hôryûsai Toshitsugu; [Inscription] On reverse: 製; [Transliteration] sei; [Translation] made (by)",
    "med": "silver, shakudo, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7692"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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