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    "localId": "35251",
    "label": "Jar with Climbing Floral Designs",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1514"
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    "id": "35251",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1514",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Jar with Climbing Floral Designs",
    "description": "By the late 1600s, groupings of five or seven Chinese porcelain vessels with alternating shapes were often displayed over doors. A complete set was called a \"garniture.\" This piece with the cobalt blue underglaze is from the Kangxi period (1662-1722) and were made for export to foreign markets.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1690-1710",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.1514",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 18 3/8 in. (46.6 cm)"
}

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    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Kangxi (1662-1722)",
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    "med": "porcelain with underglaze blue",
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