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{
    "localId": "12554",
    "label": "Shirin Encounters the Sculptor Farhad",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.59A"
}

{
    "id": "12554",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.59A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Shirin Encounters the Sculptor Farhad",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.624 depicts a scene from the Shirin va Khusraw. On horseback, Shirin approaches the sculptor Farhad. The milk flowing through the channel recalls Shirin's request that Farhad cut a path through the mountain to bring milk from his flocks to her pavilion. Below the image, the border is inscribed 'amal-i (work of) Sanwalah.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1597-1598 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.59A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.59a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.59a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.59a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28.5 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Mughal",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "18417",
        "7404",
        "7405"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2664"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.624.59a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "19d5c1fbb3ef2798"
}