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    "localId": "90835",
    "label": "Lantern with Eight Daoist Immortals",
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    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "Lantern with Eight Daoist Immortals",
    "description": "In China, the Eight Immortals are among the most popular figures in Daoism, a school of thought that grounds human behavior in cycles of nature. Here, each immortal exercises their unique powers to cross the sea.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1662-1722 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))",
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            "width": 33.1,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 1/16 × W: 7 5/16 × D: 7 5/16 in. (33.1 × 18.5 × 18.5 cm)"
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