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    "localId": "14650",
    "label": "Bird Offering Container",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.344"
}

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    "id": "14650",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.344",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bird Offering Container",
    "description": "Donations to temples are believed to confer merit not only on the donor but also on all living beings. For this reason, altars are filled with gifts, such as food, flowers, and incense, that have been donated by devotees. Beautifully crafted vessels like this one, with its image of a semi-divine bird known as a \"hamsa,\" were given to hold these items.",
    "provenance": "Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection; given to Walters Art Museum, 2002.",
    "date": "19th-20th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.344",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "containers"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_61.344_3QtrLftBlack_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_61.344_3QtrLftBlack_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_61.344_3QtrLftBlack_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 49.5,
            "height": 20.5,
            "depth": 20.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 19 1/2 × W: 8 1/16 × D: 8 1/8 in. (49.5 × 20.5 × 20.7 cm); Base H: 2 15/16 × 6 in. (7.5 × 15.3 cm); Lid H: 115/8 × 8 1/16 × 8 1/8 in. (29.5 × 20.5 × 20.7 cm); Bottom of Bird H: 2 1/8 × 2 7/8 × 4 3/4 in. (5.4 × 7.3 × 12.1 cm)."
}

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    "cul": "Burmese",
    "med": "wood, metal, gilding, glass inlay, lacquer, and leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "SEA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "018354c044c63988"
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