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{
    "localId": "32747",
    "label": "Bodhisattva, probably Maitreya",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2714"
}

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    "id": "32747",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2714",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bodhisattva, probably Maitreya",
    "description": "In 7th- and 8th-century Cambodia and northeastern Thailand, Mahayana (\"Great Vehicle\") Buddhists worshiped a triad consisting of the Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas (future Buddhas), Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya. Avalokiteshvara symbolizes the quality of loving kindness, and Maitreya is due to appear on earth as the next Buddha.",
    "provenance": "Private collection, Thonburi, prior to April 13, 1951; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, April 13, 1951 [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, December 1960, inv. no. 307]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 8th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2714",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.2714_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_54.2714_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 1/4 in. (20.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Cambodian?",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "bronze",
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        "2501",
        "2147"
    ],
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    ],
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    ]
}

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