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    "localId": "30969",
    "label": "Lotus Chalice",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.414"
}

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    "id": "30969",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.414",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lotus Chalice",
    "description": "Lotus chalices such as this one were probably used in both rituals and daily life. The vessel's shape imitates the blue lotus flower, which was a type of water lily.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "13th-11th century BCE (New Kingdom-Third Intermediate Period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.414",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "chalices"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.414_VwC_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.414_VwC_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14,
            "height": 4.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "at bottom: 5 1/2 x 1 13/16 in. (14 x 4.6 cm) (h. x diam.); top: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm) (diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "dynasty": "19th-21st Dynasty",
    "med": "molded Egyptian faience with light blue glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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