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    "localId": "5",
    "label": "Peach Bloom Brush Washer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.685"
}

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    "id": "5",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.685",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Peach Bloom Brush Washer",
    "description": "This example of a tangluo xi or gong-shaped brush washer is covered with a peach bloom glaze on the outside and a white glaze inside. Apple green flecked with dark brown spots contrasts with a mottled red ground of the glaze. The shallow brush bath has a compressed rounded body and wide inverted mouth. The finest of peach bloom wares date to the latter half of the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), produced at the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen. The glaze's delicate modulation of color suited its application on sets of petite porcelains for the scholar's writing table, including small flower vases, brush washers, and boxes for seal paste.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1662-1722",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.685",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vessels",
        "brush washers"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3,
            "height": 12
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/16 × Diam: 4 3/4 in. (3 × 12 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Reign Mark] In blue underglaze: da qing kang xi nian zhi",
    "dynasty": "Qing Dynasty",
    "reign": "Kangxi (1662-1722)",
    "med": "porcelain with peach bloom glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "170"
    ]
}

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