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    "localId": "35020",
    "label": "The Buddha Preaches in Indra's Heaven and Descends to Earth, with Hell Below",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "35020",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
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    "title": "The Buddha Preaches in Indra's Heaven and Descends to Earth, with Hell Below",
    "provenance": "Yoshie Shinomoto, Monkton, Maryland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by gift.",
    "date": "1885 (Rattanakosin)",
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