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    "localId": "18285",
    "label": "Cosmic Shiva",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.901"
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    "id": "18285",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.901",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cosmic Shiva",
    "description": "The god Shiva is shown in a dancing pose with five heads and eighteen arms that bear weapons and ritual instruments. His hair is piled up like a hermit’s on his upper heads, in front of which a crescent moon appears. The wavy white line at the right is the Ganges River, which descends from Shiva’s hair when he is residing in his mountain hideaway.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.",
    "date": "1825-1850",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.901",
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    "language": "en",
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        "miniatures (paintings)"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 14.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 3/4 in. (21 x 14.6 cm); Framed H: 20 1/8 × W: 15 3/16 × D: 1 1/4 in. (51.12 × 38.58 × 3.18 cm)"
}

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