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    "localId": "79417",
    "label": "Bowl with Flower Motif",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2857"
}

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    "id": "79417",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2857",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bowl with Flower Motif",
    "description": "Possibly made during the colonial period, this simple bowl shows a many-petalled flower and accompanying leaves. This may have been merely decorative, or may refer to a sacred, possibly hallucenogenic, plant of the coastal region in which it was made.",
    "provenance": "New World Antiquities, San Francisco [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1988, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.",
    "date": "300 BC-AD 700",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2857",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2857_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2857_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.7,
            "height": 11.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/8 x W: 4 3/8 in. (6.7 x 11.1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Bahia",
    "med": "ceramic tanware with polychrome",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8557"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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