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{
    "localId": "30005",
    "label": "Bowl with Design of Fish",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.611"
}

{
    "id": "30005",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.611",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bowl with Design of Fish",
    "description": "A mark on this piece claims that it was \"made for the hall for the cultivation of virtue,\" the building at the Summer Palace in which the Daoguang [Tao-kuang] emperor died in 1850.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1821-1850",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.611",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.611_3Qtr_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.611_3Qtr_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_49.611_3Qtr_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.9,
            "height": 10.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/16 × Diam: 4 1/4 in. (5.9 × 10.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Mark] Four-character mark in red enamel: shen te t'ang chih; [Translation] made for the hall for the cultivation of virtue",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "reign": "Daoguang [Tao-kuang] (1820-1850)",
    "med": "porcelain with coral-red and turquoise enamels",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "76"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_49.611_Int_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1a04c35dd786a8eb"
}