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    "localId": "7283",
    "label": "Oil Pot with Candlestick and Tweezer Snuffer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.825"
}

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    "id": "7283",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.825",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Oil Pot with Candlestick and Tweezer Snuffer",
    "description": "Metalworking traditions, such as this painted enamel (yangci), remained popular during the Qing dynasty. Painted enamels is a technique of applying enamels directly on the copper surface. The production of painted enamel was located mainly in the imperial workshops of Beijing and, for export wares, in Canton (present-day Guangzhou in Guangdong province).",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1722-1735 (Qing dynasty; reign of the Yongzheng emperor (1722–35))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/49.825",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pot",
        "candleholders",
        "tweezers"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 16.7,
            "depth": 9.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 7 1/2 ×W with spout: 6 9/16 × D: 3 11/16 in. (19 × 16.7 × 9.3 cm); Teapot H: 4 9/16 ×W with spout: 6 9/16 × D: 3 11/16 in. (11.6 × 16.7 × 9.3 cm); Lid H: 3 7/8 × Diam: 2 15/16 in. (9.9 × 7.5 cm)."
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Mark] reign mark of Yongzheng emperor (1722-1735)",
    "dynasty": "Qing dynasty",
    "reign": "Yongzheng (1722-1735)",
    "med": "Copper, enamel, and gilding",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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