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{
    "localId": "35619",
    "label": "Tsuba with Autumn Flora",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.309"
}

{
    "id": "35619",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.309",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Autumn Flora",
    "description": "This tsuba combines five of the celebrated flowers of autumn. The uppermost stalk on the right is pampas grass. Below that are maiden flowers, arrowroot and Chinese bell flowers. A tendril of bush clover crosses along the bottom on the tsuba. These flowers and grasses were regularly invoked in Japanese poetry and painting to signify autumn.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1824 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.309",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.309_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.309_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.309_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.2,
            "height": 8.8,
            "depth": 0.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 5/8 × W: 3 7/16 × D: 3/8 in. (9.2 × 8.8 × 0.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Ishiguro School",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] 壽岳斎　石黒政美彫之; [Transliteration] Jugakusai Ishiguro Masayoshi kore o horu; [Translation] Engraved by Jugakusai Ishiguro Masayoshi; [Date] 文政七甲秋造之; [Transliteration] Bunsei shichi saru shu kore o zo; [Translation] Made in the autumn of the year of the monkey",
        "seventh year of Bunsei (1824)"
    ],
    "med": "shakudo, gold alloy, gold, shibuichi, and copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4500"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.309_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "18370df371fe67ed"
}