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    "localId": "15013",
    "label": "Pyxis with Animal Frieze",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.81"
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    "id": "15013",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pyxis with Animal Frieze",
    "description": "The body of the pyxis is decorated with a bull, griffin, and dog in profile with volutes on each side of the dog separating it from the other creatures. The lid is decorated by a pattern of palmettes and volutes surrounded by a border of egg-and-dart. There is a hole in the center of the lid where a knob handle would have attached.",
    "provenance": "Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge Sale, London, May 23-24, 1921, lot no. 243; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BCE (Classical-Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.81",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "pyxides"
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    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8,
            "height": 11.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/8 x W: 4 5/8 in. (8 x 11.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "terracotta; red figure",
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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