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{
    "localId": "27812",
    "label": "Strainer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.910"
}

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    "id": "27812",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.910",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Strainer",
    "description": "The strainer was used to remove sediment from the thick Greek wine. Examples similar to this one have been found in royal tombs in northern Greece, as well as the tomb of a monarch in the Sudan. The two handles are shaped like sinuous swan heads.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from \"\"Turkey / Thessalia\"\"]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.910",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "strainers (culinary tools)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.910_Bot_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.910_Bot_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.910_Bot_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.4,
            "height": 21.7,
            "depth": 2.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/2 x 8 9/16 x 1 1/16 in. (11.4 x 21.7 x 2.6 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237",
        "2838"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.910_Bot_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "20bd47ae9b48aa2d"
}