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{
    "localId": "8335",
    "label": "Fucki with Two People in a Gourd, One with a Chinese Fan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.903"
}

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    "id": "8335",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.903",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fucki with Two People in a Gourd, One with a Chinese Fan",
    "description": "The gourd is depicted with a hole in its side, revealing two men inside. This may be the 3rd-century Chinese immortal Koko (Ch. Hu Gong [Hu Kung]) and his student Hichibo (Ch. Fei Zhang Fang [Fei Chang Fang]) who were able to shrink themselves to fit in a gourd. On the back is another man holding a fan who appears to have come out of the gourd. It is part of a set with Walters 51.906.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1775-1800 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.903",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.903_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.903_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] 行年六十一才; [Transliteration] gyônen rokujûichi sai; [Translation] Age 61; [Signature] 高瀬榮壽; [Translation] Takase Eiju",
    "med": "shibuichi",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6627"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.903_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "65a653355cfb4d92"
}