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    "localId": "14074",
    "label": "Kashira with Dragon",
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    "id": "14074",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kashira with Dragon",
    "description": "A fierce dragon is shown on an elaborate background of carved hexagons. Flowers with four petals are inside each hexagon. Gold plates have been added to the back of the kashira which repeat the hexagon motif.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (Edo-Meiji)",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shakudo, gold",
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