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    "localId": "20774",
    "label": "Tsuba with Grapevine and Squirrels",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.173"
}

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    "id": "20774",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.173",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Grapevine and Squirrels",
    "description": "Grapevines hang down from the top of this tsuba. Over the plugged hole for the hair pick, a squirrel is perched on the vine. At the bottom of the tsuba is another squirrel. On the reverse, another squirrel looks up at the grapevines.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st half 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.173",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuba",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.4,
            "height": 6.8,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 15/16 × W: 2 11/16 × D: 5/16 in. (7.4 × 6.8 × 0.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 江戸住　斎藤富隨; [Transliteration] Edo ju/Saito Tomiyuki; [Translation] Living in Edo/Saito Tomiyuki",
    "med": "copper, gold, shakudo (gold-copper alloy)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3105"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "70037d267ae621ef"
}