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    "localId": "23332",
    "label": "Inro with Drums and Pipes for Classical Bugaku Dance",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.372"
}

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    "id": "23332",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.372",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Inro with Drums and Pipes for Classical Bugaku Dance",
    "description": "A carved wood \"manju\" netsuke with a gold lacquer hare's-foot fern (\"shinobugusai\"). A standard wood and gold ground two compartment inro. A maple tree which the upper part of a large drum and a curtain used in Bugaku are beneath. On the reverse a sho or pan pipe and three maple leaves. The design in \"takamakie\" and \"hiramakie\" in gold with some red for the maple leaves and silver lacquer. A background of greyish transparent lacquer on the reverse and top to allow the wood grain to appear. A plain interior. The cord channels are internal.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 19th century (Edo; Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.372",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer & Inlay",
        "inro",
        "netsukes",
        "manju",
        "ojime",
        "boxes (containers)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 2.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "inro: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 x 7/8 in. (6 x 7 x 2.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "gold lacquer, wood",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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