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    "localId": "33890",
    "label": "Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3130"
}

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    "id": "33890",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3130",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara",
    "description": "The inscription around the base states that this Lokeshvara was commissioned by a Buddhist monk (\"bhiksu\") for his own use. This may indicate that not only was it used as a personal votive object but that the monk would receive the rewards for having it made. (Usually inscriptions dedicate these rewards to a family member.)",
    "provenance": "Ian Alsop, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, December 15, 1980, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2021, by gift.",
    "date": "1597/98 (year 719 of the era beginning 879)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.3130",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/REF_F.166_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/REF_F.166_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.4,
            "height": 9.2,
            "depth": 9.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 7/16 × W: 3 5/8 × D: 3 9/16 in. (21.4 × 9.2 × 9.1 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gilded copper alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15526"
    ],
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        "INT"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2071"
    ]
}

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}