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    "localId": "7228",
    "label": "Tsuba with Squirrels in a Grape Vine",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.325"
}

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    "id": "7228",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.325",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Squirrels in a Grape Vine",
    "description": "Grape vines filled with fruit surround the openings on this tsuba. Three squirrels are shown amongst the vine. One is at the top on the front side. A second is below the secondary opening on the left. The third is on the reverse just above the secondary opening on the left.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1845 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.325",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuba",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.325_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7,
            "height": 6.7,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/4 × W: 2 5/8 × D: 1/4 in. (7 × 6.7 × 0.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 守邨厚隆; [Translation] Morimura Atsutaka (kao)",
    "med": "sentoku (copper-tin alloy), shakudo (gold-copper alloy), gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2454"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "8eb34e0a57985e53"
}