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    "localId": "79215",
    "label": "Kogai with Chinese-style Lions",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1255.5"
}

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    "id": "79215",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1255.5",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kogai with Chinese-style Lions",
    "description": "Two Chinese-style lions (\"shishi\") are depicted in gold against a black background of fish egg pattern (\"nanako-ji\"). This style of lion was developed by artists who never saw a living lion. Therefore, they look more like dogs than lions. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acqusition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1255.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kogai",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1255.5_DetA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 後藤光信; [Translation] Gotô Mitsunobu (kao)",
    "med": "shakudo, gold, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16481"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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