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    "localId": "2108",
    "label": "Tsuba with Orchid and Chrysanthemum Leaves",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.94"
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    "id": "2108",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.94",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Orchid and Chrysanthemum Leaves",
    "description": "Leaves of two celebrated plants, the chrysanthemum and the iris are depicted along the right edge of the tsuba.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1828-1891 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.94",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
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        "sword components"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.9,
            "height": 6.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 11/16 x W: 2 1/2 in. (6.9 x 6.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Otsuki School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 篤興造; [Transliteration] Tokuoki Zo; [Translation] Made by Tokuoki",
    "med": "iron, silver, gold",
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    ],
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