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{
    "localId": "7771",
    "label": "Lotus Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.366"
}

{
    "id": "7771",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.366",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lotus Bowl",
    "description": "This bowl is decorated with a raised design underneath the glaze. Bowls of this lotus design were exported from Egypt all over the eastern Mediterranean, especially to the Aegean islands and Anatolia (Asia Minor).",
    "provenance": "Reverend William MacGregor Colection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, no. 241; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.366",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.366_VwA_DD_T11.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.366_VwA_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.366_VwA_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.5,
            "height": 13.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (9.5 x 13.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "med": "Egyptian faience",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_48.366_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "mediaId": "35ab36efdfaf0c88"
}