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    "localId": "27978",
    "label": "Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1045"
}

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    "id": "27978",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1045",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Teapot in the Form of Two Peaches",
    "description": "This teapot is an example of Yixing [I-hsing] ware and is glazed with a blue-brown transmutation.Peaches of immortality, which ripen only once in a thousand years, grow in the garden of the queen mother of the West, according to Taoist cosmology.  The peach stands for long life.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1045",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "teapots",
        "lids"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "style": "Yixing [I-hsing] ware",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "stoneware with glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
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