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    "localId": "3159",
    "label": "Ornamented Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1714"
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    "id": "3159",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1714",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ornamented Bowl",
    "description": "This tripod bowl consists of a white porcelain paste molded and carved with designs, handles, and feet and covered with white glaze. The crisp molding on the body depicts a variety of auspicious symbols as dangling pendants. The inclusion of two pairs of fish as well as the Chinese character \"xi' for \"happiness\" suggests the bowl commemorates the beginning of a happy and long marriage. Fine incisions and a variety of textures are impressed into the paste of these designs.  The looped handles take the form of two dragon heads bearing loose porcelain rings in their mouths.",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1820-1850 (Daoguang)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1714",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Daoguang (1820-50)",
    "med": "porcelain with white glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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