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    "localId": "8918",
    "label": "Offering Container",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.662"
}

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    "id": "8918",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.662",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Offering Container",
    "description": "Providing monks with their daily meals in exchange for prayers and religious teachings is considered an act of devotion. This spired offering vessel, known as \"hsun-ok,\" was used to transport food to a temple or monastery. It has three parts: a bowl attached to a flaring pedestal, a pagoda-shaped cover, and an internal plainly lacquered tray on which food such as soup, curries, pickles, or rice might be placed.",
    "provenance": "Yoshie Shinomoto; given to Walters Art Museum, 1993.",
    "date": "19th-20th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.662",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "containers"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_67.662A-C_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_67.662A-C_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 54.8,
            "height": 39
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 21 9/16 × 15 3/8 in. (54.8 × 39 cm); Lid H: 13 3/8 × 15 3/8 in. (33.9 × 39 cm); Tray H: 2 5/16 × 13 5/16 in. (5.8 × 33.8 cm); Base H: 9 1/2 × 13 3/8 in. (24.1 × 34 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gold and lacquer on bamboo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "SEA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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