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    "localId": "6125",
    "label": "Vase with Rooster, Hen, and Chicks among Banana Plants",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.691"
}

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    "id": "6125",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.691",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase with Rooster, Hen, and Chicks among Banana Plants",
    "description": "This cloisonné vase features a rooster, a hen, and chicks among banana plants. Beginning in the 1880s, Japanese cloisonné artists developed wireless cloisonné (musen shippō), a technique for which Namikawa Sōsuke was renowned. This vase shows no traces of the metal wires that initially outlined the animals and plants. The effect was achieved by taking off the metal wires before each of the three firings, resulting in a cloisonné design that the artist intended to look like a painting.",
    "provenance": "Edward Higginson Williams (1824-1899), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Woodstock, Vermont; Edward Higginson Williams Collection Sale, Christie's, New York, October 12, 1979; Lynne C. and Michael H. Lerner, Hoboken, New Jersey and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1995, by gift.",
    "date": "early 20th century (Meiji period (1868-1912))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.691",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.691_SideB_TR_T95III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.691_SideB_TR_T95III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.691_SideB_TR_T95III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 50.5,
            "height": 22.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 19 7/8 × Diam: 9 in. (50.5 × 22.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "wireless cloisonne (musen shippo)",
    "dynasty": "Meiji period",
    "med": "Copper, gold-copper alloy (shakudo), silver, gold, enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5333"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2748"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_44.691_SideA_TR_T95III.jpg",
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