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    "localId": "40163",
    "label": "Tsuka with Insects and Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1273.3B"
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    "id": "40163",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1273.3B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Insects and Flowers",
    "description": "The kashira is decorated with spring flowers and two butterflies, which contrast to the autumn flowers and dragonflies on the matching fuchi. The copper menuki are in the shape of grasshoppers. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1273.3B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "tsuka",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "silver, gold, ray skin, copper, sentoku",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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