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    "localId": "40378",
    "label": "Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.383"
}

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    "id": "40378",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.383",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase",
    "description": "Rousseau was an innovative ceramist and glass designer who played a pivotal role in introducing Japanese motifs into French decorative arts. At the 1884 Paris Union Centrale exhibition, he first exhibited \"crackle\" glass, which was created using a 16th-century Venetian technique in which the glass is immersed in cold water between firings. The actual production of the glass was carried out by Appert Frères, a glass manufactory in the Paris suburb of Clichy.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1894 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [from 5 West Mt. Vernon Place].",
    "date": "ca. 1884",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.383",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Glasswares",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_47.383_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "18 1/2 in. (47 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "Not signed",
    "med": "layered glass with gold foil inclusions",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4874"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454"
    ]
}

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