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    "localId": "17158",
    "label": "Comb with Scrolls and Birds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.48"
}

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    "id": "17158",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.48",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Comb with Scrolls and Birds",
    "description": "This small painted comb depicts a roundel with a bird inside, flanked by two open-winged birds.  The reverse side contains a painted rectangular panel with a vine scroll.  The comb was at one point broken in half and repaired, although many of the comb's teeth are lost.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.48",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "combs"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_71.48_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.3,
            "height": 6.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/4 x W: 2 9/16 in. (8.3 x 6.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Sicilian",
    "style": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Norman Dynasty",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6271"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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