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    "localId": "30144",
    "label": "Cosmic Vishnu as Infant Krishna",
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    "title": "Cosmic Vishnu as Infant Krishna",
    "description": "Though he may appear as a mere child playfully sucking on his toes, Krishna is in fact an incarnation of the powerful god Vishnu. This devotional image portrays a vision the sage Markandeya once had, when he saw the infant lying on a banyan leaf floating in the cosmic ocean. When Krishna revealed his true form, it was the all-pervading Vishnu, resting on the primordial waters between cosmic eras, when he gives rise to the re-creation of the universe.",
    "provenance": "Hartman Gallery, New York; purchased by E. C. O'Dell, Baltimore, 1955; inherited by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, March 1981; given to Walters Art Museum, 2010.",
    "date": "16th-17th century",
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    "language": "en",
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            "width": 8.3,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/4 × W: 7 1/4 × D: 4 3/8 in. (8.3 × 18.4 × 11.1 cm)"
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