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    "localId": "37907",
    "label": "Sarasvati",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.292"
}

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    "id": "37907",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.292",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sarasvati",
    "description": "Sarasvati is a Hindu goddess, adopted as a goddess of learning and the performing arts by Buddhists. Here, she sits on a lotus rising from the water and plays a central Asian lute - not a \"vina,\" as would be the case in India.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1500",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.292",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings",
        "tangkas",
        "tankas",
        "thangkas",
        "thankas"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 46.5,
            "height": 35.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 18 5/16 × W: 14 1/16 in. (46.51 × 35.72 cm); Framed H: 33 5/8 × W: 17 1/2 × D: 1 1/2 in. (85.41 × 44.45 × 3.81 cm)"
}

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    "med": "tempera on cloth",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6868"
    ],
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        "INT",
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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