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    "localId": "5141",
    "label": "Netsuke of a Tusk with Spider and Poem",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.817"
}

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    "id": "5141",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.817",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Netsuke of a Tusk with Spider and Poem",
    "description": "A carved wild boar tusk netsuke with a spider applied in relief. A fern and a long inscription are incised and ink stained in the lines.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 18th-mid 19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.817",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "netsuke"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.817_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.817_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.2,
            "height": 4.7,
            "depth": 1.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 × W: 1 7/8 × D: 9/16 in. (10.2 × 4.7 × 1.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Iwami School",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transliteration] Michinoku no / Shinobu moji-zuri / Tare yue ni / Midare-some nishi / Ware naranaku ni; [Translation] Ah! why does love distract my thoughts",
        "Disordering my will!  I'm like the pattern on the cloth of Michinoku hill",
        "-- All in confusion still."
    ],
    "med": "boar tusk ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4159"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "275"
    ]
}

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