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    "localId": "37665",
    "label": "Pen-Box with Hunters and Portraits",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.570"
}

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    "id": "37665",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.570",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pen-Box with Hunters and Portraits",
    "description": "This pen-box is a hollowed-out walrus tusk, into which a sliding drawer has been fitted. The surface is carved with hunting horsemen and busts of three men and a woman within floral frames. The underside of the box is signed in a cartouche: \"Work of Kazim al-Hasani, 1231\" (AD 1815-1816). There is a chip and a repair where the side touches the cover.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1815-1816",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.570",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "boxes (containers)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.570_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.8,
            "height": 3.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 9 x W: 1 7/16 in. (22.8 x 3.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] work of Kazim al-Hasani",
        "1231"
    ],
    "med": "walrus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3823"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2759"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "b5c40a5a570018f8"
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