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    "localId": "40798",
    "label": "Nine Chinese Gentlemen in a Garden",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.199"
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    "id": "40798",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.199",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Nine Chinese Gentlemen in a Garden",
    "description": "Iron inlaid with brocade patterns and plum blossoms in shibuichi. Nine gentlemen near a stream, with names and ages inscribed in plaques, in taka-bori of gold, shibuichi and copper. One is reading a book at a table. Decoration inlaid and applied(?) Signed on lid with two seals after the signature. Inside the lid the Thousand Character Essay is inscribed. A three-clawed dragon is inlaid in gold zogan on the bottom and inside the box with a poem about the dragon inscribed on the inner sides",
    "provenance": "S.Colman?; Acquired by Henry Walters before 1931",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/52.199",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] Dai Nippon Itchosai Harutoshi saku; [Translation] Made by Itchosai Harutoshi of Great Japan; [Seal] two unread",
    "med": "Iron with gold, silver, copper, shibuichi",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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