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    "localId": "21803",
    "label": "Fuchi with Chinese Bell Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1163.2A"
}

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    "id": "21803",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1163.2A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Chinese Bell Flowers",
    "description": "The front of the fuchi is decorated with Chinese bell flowers, one of the celebrated flowers of autumn. On the reverse is a sprig of pampas grass, another autumn plant. 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": "1804-1886 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1163.2A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 生涼軒　萩谷勝平; [Translation] Seiryôken Hagiya Katsuhira (kao)",
    "med": "silver, gold, shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6751"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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