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    "localId": "2285",
    "label": "Krishna with a Butterball",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3079"
}

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    "id": "2285",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3079",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Krishna with a Butterball",
    "description": "The infant Krishna's fondness for raiding his mother's pantry for butter can be understood metaphorically as a representation of the god's ability to steal the human heart. The sculpture would have been installed in a household shrine in West Bengal.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.",
    "date": "17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3079",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 16.3,
            "depth": 25.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 × W: 6 7/16 × D: 10 1/16 in. (23.5 × 16.3 × 25.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "copper alloy with shell inlay and traces of paint",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "2071"
    ]
}

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