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    "localId": "12870",
    "label": "Vase in the Form of Nike",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2022"
}

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    "id": "12870",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2022",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase in the Form of Nike",
    "description": "The perfume vessel, which was suspended from a cord, is shaped like a flying Nike, personification of victory. Her active pose and agitated, wind-blown drapery demonstrate the highly decorative tastes of the early 4th century.",
    "provenance": "Mikas, by 1925, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2181]; Sale, Joseph Brummer, New York, June 1949, pt. III, lot 18; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "4th century BCE (Classical-Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2022",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2022_Fnt_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.5,
            "height": 11.7,
            "depth": 5.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 7/8 x 4 9/16 x 2 3/16 in. (17.5 x 11.7 x 5.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "terracotta; pigment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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