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    "localId": "36114",
    "label": "Plate with a View of a Religious Interior",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1086"
}

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    "id": "36114",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1086",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plate with a View of a Religious Interior",
    "description": "The potter who decorated this plate chose to depict an architectural interior—possibly a shrine—as if it were a flat façade, with domes over the building's three principle units. The central niche probably represents a \"mihrab,\" orienting the building to Mecca. The large lamp, rendered here in blue, is typical of traditional lighting fixtures in mosques and other religious buildings. It hangs over a low, X-shaped book-stand intended to hold a copy of the Qur'an (the holy book of Islam). The lines of what look like Arabic writing above the stand are not legible and probably were meant to imitate Qur'anic verses.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "15th century (late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1086",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "plates"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.1086_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.1086_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.7,
            "height": 32
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 7/16 x Diam: 12 5/8 in. (8.7 x 32 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "fritware ceramic, with underglaze decoration",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3930"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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