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    "localId": "13411",
    "label": "Box (Pyx)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.311"
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    "id": "13411",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.311",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box (Pyx)",
    "description": "This ivory box is decorated with roundels and drinking figures and bears an inscription in \"naskhi.\"",
    "provenance": "Baer Collection, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Germanisches Museum; J. G. Pollack Collection, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henri Daguerre, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th-13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.311",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
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        "boxes"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14,
            "height": 13.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with knob: 5 1/2 x Diam: 5 1/8 in. (14 x 13.05 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Siculo-Arabic",
    "med": "ivory (elephant tusk), with gilding and paint",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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