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{
    "localId": "31740",
    "label": "Dancing Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1107"
}

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    "id": "31740",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1107",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dancing Figure, Possibly with Dwarfism",
    "description": "The peaked cap suggests that the dancer is a mime who wears the traditional headdress of a clown or buffoon. This figure may represent an individual with the characteristics of dwarfism.",
    "provenance": "S. Pozzi Collection Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1919, no. 420; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd century BCE (Ptolemaic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1107",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.1107_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.1107_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.1107_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.4,
            "height": 4,
            "depth": 3.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/2 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 1 5/16 in. (11.4 x 4 x 3.3 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "cast bronze with silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6182"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EGY",
        "GRC"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_54.1107_DetA_BW_T88.jpg",
    "mediaId": "72a22919bc0f65ad"
}