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    "localId": "5303",
    "label": "Ceremonial Water Vessel",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.795"
}

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    "id": "5303",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.795",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ceremonial Water Vessel",
    "description": "The motifs and shape are inspired by ceremonial water vessels of the 10th century BCE.  The glazes are intended to suggest the patina of an inlaid bronze long buried in the earth.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1736-1795 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.795",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "Reign mark of the Qianlong emperor In gold",
    "dynasty": "Qing (1644-1911)",
    "reign": "Qianlong (1736-1795)",
    "med": "porcelain with tea-dust green glaze and overglaze turquoise and gold",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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