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{
    "localId": "12572",
    "label": "Vessel with Lid",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.426"
}

{
    "id": "12572",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.426",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vessel with Lid",
    "description": "The finest of three lidded faience baskets to survive from the New Kingdom, this example shows how the artisan tried to imitate actual fiber baskets. Even the base of the vessel imitates coiled fiber. The vessel and its lid were held together by decoratively laced string.",
    "provenance": "Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1898; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 270; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1400-1300 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.426",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.426_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.426_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.426_SideA_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 11.1,
            "depth": 9.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 3 13/16 in. (19 x 11.1 x 9.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "18th Dynasty",
    "med": "Egyptian faience with black pigment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2568",
        "2682"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.426_Bot_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6671b676c8ceac09"
}