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{
    "localId": "22958",
    "label": "Handled Vessel with Silver Lid",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2386"
}

{
    "id": "22958",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2386",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Handled Vessel with Silver Lid",
    "description": "By the mid-17th century, Japanese ceramics became particularly popular in Southeast Asia and Europe. The Dutch East India Trading Company imported great quantities of Japanese porcelain to the Netherlands. Once there, this Japanese blue-and-white vessel was then outfitted with a silver hinged lid to repurpose the vessel into a tankard (lidded mug), presumably to make the ceramic vessel more functional for the Dutch market.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Porcelain: 1670-1690; Lid: 1690 (Edo period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.2386",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "tankard"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.2386_Top_DD_T09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.2386_Top_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.2386_Top_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26,
            "height": 17.5,
            "depth": 14
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H (to top of handle): 10 1/4 × W: 6 7/8 × D: 5 1/2 in. (26 × 17.5 × 14 cm)H (to top of lid): 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Arita style",
    "dynasty": "Edo period",
    "med": "Porcelain, underglaze blue, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194",
        "6227"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_49.2386_SideVw_DD_T09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "15acfca75fce3012"
}