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    "localId": "32852",
    "label": "Wine Bottle and Cup",
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    "id": "32852",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Wine Bottle and Cup",
    "description": "The double gourd is associated with long life and good fortune.  One of the eight Daoist [Taoist] immortals carries a double gourd from which bats sometimes emerge (\"fu\" means both \"bat\" and \"good fortune\").",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [accessioned in 1988].",
    "date": "late 18th-early 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/68.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 25.4,
            "height": 10.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "10 x 4 1/4 in. (25.4 x 10.8 cm)"
}

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    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "carved gourd, metal alloy, wood, silk, bamboo",
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