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    "localId": "79351",
    "label": "Tsuka with Spiny Lobsters in Waves",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1185.3"
}

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    "id": "79351",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1185.3",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Spiny Lobsters in Waves",
    "description": "Two spiny lobsters are positioned on this tsuka in the usual place for menuki. The rest of the tsuka is decorated with waves so that the spiny lobsters appear to be in the sea. 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 (Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1185.3",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "red-gold and gold lacquer, silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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