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    "localId": "79253",
    "label": "Fuchi with Chinese Lantern Plants",
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    "id": "79253",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1265.3A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Chinese Lantern Plants",
    "description": "Three Chinese lantern plants (\"hôzuki\") surround the edge of the fuchi. Chinese lantern plants bloom in the summer. This is part of a mounted set of sword fittings all depicting Chinese lanterns.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (Edo)",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shakudo, coral, gold, mother-of-pearl dust",
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