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    "localId": "23658",
    "label": "Vase with Waves and Dragons",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.598"
}

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    "id": "23658",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.598",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase with Waves and Dragons",
    "description": "This baluster shaped vase (or meiping, \"plum vase\") utilizes multiple techniques and glazes. First, the vase is covered with a brilliant crackled glaze of emerald-green passing into olive at the edges. Then, a thick over-glaze of peach bloom is applied, a light pink mottled with green. Beneath these thick glazes, a lightly etched decoration in the paste emerges ever so slightly. Around the foot of the base, two dragons mount into the cloud over sea waves. The vase has a round bulbous upper body which curves inward towards a ledged foot. The neck is short and narrow with a white rounded lip.",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1710-1730",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.598",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.4,
            "height": 10.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 7/8 × Diam: 4 3/16 in. (17.4 × 10.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Kangxi; Yongzheng",
    "med": "incised porcelain with peach bloom copper-oxide glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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