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    "localId": "22026",
    "label": "Incense Box in the Shape of a Folding Fan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1372"
}

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    "id": "22026",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1372",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Box in the Shape of a Folding Fan",
    "description": "This box, used to hold incense pellets, represents Kyoto potters' penchant for replicating luxury items also made in Kyoto. Kenzan's signature is cleverly incorporated into the colophon on the fan's face, which bears a Chinese poem and a \"painting\" of a flowering branch.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1372",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "kogo",
        "incense boxes"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.1372_Opn_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.5,
            "height": 7.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 x W: 3 1/16 in. (5.5 x 7.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Kyoto ware",
    "med": "Raku-type earthenware with iron pigment under glaze, enamels over glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6894"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "753"
    ]
}

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