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    "localId": "1635",
    "label": "Tsuba with Peony and Butterfly",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1227.2"
}

{
    "id": "1635",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1227.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Peony and Butterfly",
    "description": "At the upper right are a large, blossoming peony and a bud. Another flower is at the lower right. On the reverse is a butterfly in gold. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1871 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1227.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1227.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1227.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1227.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] 明治辛未孟夏　於東府墨泉邊; [Transliteration] Meiji kanoto hitsuji môka",
        "oite tôfu Sumi izumi atari; [Translation] Meiji year of the sheep (1871) fourth month",
        "in Tokyo near Sumi spring; [Signature] 貞幹; [Translation] Teikan (kao)"
    ],
    "med": "silver, shakudo, gold, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2479"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1227.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e9a99d9071028109"
}