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    "localId": "22063",
    "label": "Hanging Vase Imitating a Bamboo Basket",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1501"
}

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    "id": "22063",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1501",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hanging Vase Imitating a Bamboo Basket",
    "description": "This metal hanging vase is designed to imitate a bamboo basket. It would have been used in ikebana. Ikebana is the art of flower arranging. Several considerations go into selecting the flowers and plants, and baskets and vases—such as this example—for the arrangements: season, color, fragrance, form, material, and symbolism. Ikebana arrangements, therefore, are like sculpture—the resulting forms can range widely in size and composition.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 19th-early 20th century (Meiji period (1868-1912))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1501",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 58.5,
            "height": 26.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "23 1/16 x 10 7/16 in. (58.5 x 26.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Seal] Jomi",
    "dynasty": "Meiji period (1868-1912)",
    "med": "copper, copper alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3547"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34"
    ]
}

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