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    "localId": "36060",
    "label": "Ascetic Master",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3128"
}

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    "id": "36060",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3128",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ascetic Master",
    "description": "Dancing and playing the drum, this extraordinarily animated figure may be one of the mahasiddhas or a Tibetan master belonging to a branch of Buddhist teaching known as Dogchen.",
    "provenance": "Pan Asian Sale, Christie's, New York, December 1 1982, lot 89, no. 5234; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1982; Walters Art Museum, 2021, by gift.",
    "date": "17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3128",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_f.160_Fnt_TR-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 9.5,
            "depth": 5.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 3 3/4 x D: 2 1/4 in. (10.5 x 9.5 x 5.7 cm)"
}

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    "med": "brass with polychrome",
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    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "2071"
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}

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