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{
    "localId": "37287",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Spider on a Gourd Vine Trellis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.332"
}

{
    "id": "37287",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.332",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Spider on a Gourd Vine Trellis",
    "description": "In the upper right of this tsuba is a trellis upon which a gourd vine is depicted. One gourd hangs down from the trellis near the central opening of the tsuba. At the far right, a spider hangs from a thread. On the reverse, a spider web is at the upper left. A blossoming vine on a trellis is on the left.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1866 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.332",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.332_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.332_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.332_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.4,
            "height": 7.8,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 5/16 x 3 1/16 x 3/16 in. (8.4 x 7.84 x 0.45 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Goto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] 慶應二龝　之作; [Transliteration] Keiô ni aki(?)/kore saku; [Translation] This was made in autumn of the second year of Keio (1866); [Signature] [ ] [ ] [ ] 橋本一至; [Translation] [ ][ ][ ] Hashimoto Isshi (kao)",
    "med": "iron, gold, copper, shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3684"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.332_MrkB_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d1dfd32209635300"
}