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    "localId": "30310",
    "label": "Mandala with the Buddha and Bodhisattvas",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.92"
}

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    "id": "30310",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.92",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mandala with the Buddha and Bodhisattvas",
    "description": "In the center of this piece is an inscription in Pali (?). Each figure has an inscription in Chinese and another language with larger side panels the same. The Chinese inscription to the right of the Buddha as been torn off. The piece is in a wood frame covered in brocade.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.92",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.92_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.5,
            "height": 73.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/8 x L: 29 in. (24.5 x 73.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] In center in Pali (?); [Inscription] With each figure in Chinese and another language; [Inscription] On larger side panels in Chinese and another language; [Inscription] On back in pencil: From Yellow Temple near Peking. Ch'ien Lung.",
    "med": "wash colors on paper mounted on panel with wood frame covered with brocade",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6238",
        "8298"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "INT"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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