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    "localId": "19445",
    "label": "Lusterware Cross-Shaped Tile",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1290"
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    "id": "19445",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1290",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lusterware Cross-Shaped Tile",
    "description": "This lusterware cross-shaped tile is decorated with arabesque scrollwork, and bears an inscription in a band around the edge of the cross. This tile and Walters 48.1292 are from the tomb of Imamzada Yayha at Veramin.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1262 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1290",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "tiles"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.2,
            "height": 31.2,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 5/16 x W: 12 5/16 x D: 9/16 in. (31.2 x 31.2 x 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] A.H. Dhu'l-Hijja 660-Safar 661",
    "med": "fritware ceramic with luster decoration",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6747"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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