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    "localId": "29273",
    "label": "Tsuba with Autumn Grasses with Spider and Butterflies",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.401"
}

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    "id": "29273",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.401",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Autumn Grasses with Spider and Butterflies",
    "description": "On the front of this tsuba are various autumn flowers, including chrysanthemums, maiden flower, arrowroot, and pampas grass. On the reverse is a spider in a web in the upper left. Butterflies are on the edge at the right and top.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisiton unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1850-1871 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.401",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Goto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 橋本  一至; [Translation] Hashimoto/Isshi (kao)",
    "med": "shibuichi, gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3684"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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