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    "localId": "9439",
    "label": "Tsuba with Autumn Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.210"
}

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    "id": "9439",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Autumn Flowers",
    "description": "There are four autumn flowers on the front of this tsuba; pampas grass, bush clover, Chinese bell flowers, and patrinia. On the back are chrysanthemums. All of these plants appear regularly in visual art and poetry to indicate autumn.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.210",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 6.8,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 7/8 x 2 11/16 x 3/16 in. (7.34 x 6.77 x 0.42 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shakudo, gold, copper",
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    "exhibition_ids": []
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