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{
    "localId": "27684",
    "label": "Box for the Incense Game in the Shape of an Umpire's Fan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.285"
}

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    "id": "27684",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.285",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box for the Incense Game in the Shape of an Umpire's Fan",
    "description": "This gold lacquer box for the incense game (\"kogo\") is in the shape of an umpire's fan partially overlapping a circular box. It has two similarly shaped interior boxes with lids and a circular incision on the bottom of the main box.On the top of the lid is a fan decorated with deer and maple trees; on the circular box is a branch of blossoming plum overhanging a bamboo fence. The interior boxes are decorated with chrysanthemums and peonies.",
    "provenance": "Minoda Chojiro, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.285",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer & Inlay",
        "kogo",
        "incense burners"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_67.285_Fnt_BW_H68.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.1,
            "height": 8.7,
            "depth": 10.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/4 x W: 3 7/16 x D: 4 1/4 in. (3.1 x 8.7 x 10.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "med": "gold lacquer",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "244"
    ]
}

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