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    "localId": "79450",
    "label": "Tsuka with Phoenixes",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1198.2B"
}

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    "id": "79450",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1198.2B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Phoenixes",
    "description": "Each menuki is in the shape of a gold \"hô-ô,\" which is a mythical bird similar to the phoenix. On the kashira, a \"hô-ô\" is shown in flight over a blossoming cherry tree. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd half 19th century (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1198.2B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "tsuka",
        "menuki",
        "kashira",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "black lacquer, silver, shakudo, gold, ray skin",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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