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    "localId": "81991",
    "label": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.622.binding"
}

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    "id": "81991",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.622.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "description": "This non-original binding from Walters manuscript W.622 is composed of lacquer boards (without a flap). The binding depicts hunting scenes with a gazelle and a bear and has an  inscription on the lower board, dated 1271 AH/AD 1854, reading: ya Shah Najaf (oh, King of Najaf, i.e. 'Ali).",
    "provenance": "Muhammad 'Ali Shirazi ibn […] Muhammad Qasim Shirazi, 1250 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1271 AH/AD 1854",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.622.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 10 5/8 x W: 6 1/2 in. (27.0 x 16.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "boards covered with lacquer",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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