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{
    "localId": "3289",
    "label": "Standing Buddha, with Both Hands in \"\"Abhayamudra\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2553"
}

{
    "id": "3289",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2553",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing Buddha, with Both Hands in \"\"Abhayamudra\"\"",
    "description": "When the names of the poses of the Buddha were codified in the 1830s, double-\"abhaya\" was identified as \"hâm samut,\" or \"forbidding the ocean.\" The pose had in fact persisted throughout the Ayutthaya period, but how its meaning differed from that of the right-hand-\"abhaya\" pose in the course of these centuries is not known.This image has an understated character that may in fact be rather typical of the late-Ayutthaya style.",
    "provenance": "Thong Lo (vendor), Bangkok; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, January 28, 1951, by purchase, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1985, inv. no. 860]; Walters Art Museum, 1979, by gift.",
    "date": "2nd half 18th century (Ayutthaya)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2553",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.2553_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.2553_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_54.2553_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "24 13/16 in. (63 cm);with tang: 26 15/16 in. (68.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Thai",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "leaded copper, laquer, gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2501"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "SEA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "945"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_54.2553_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e58c840be741393c"
}