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    "localId": "38050",
    "label": "Incense Burner or Hand Warmer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2236"
}

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    "id": "38050",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2236",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Burner or Hand Warmer",
    "description": "Gilded metal objects like these were made by Muslim craftsmen in Islamic lands for export to Europe. Muslim artisans often decorated their export wares with designs resembling those on European art, in addition to geometric patterns, medallions, and foliage common in Islamic art. The name of Zayn al-Din appears on a number of such export wares. Zayn al-Din may have come from Iran, since his signature on the round incense burner or hand warmer begins with the Persian word naqsh, meaning \"decorated [by].\"",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "15th-16th century (late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2236",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "incense burners",
        "censers",
        "hand warmers"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2236_Prof_DD_T06.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.2236_Prof_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.9,
            "height": 8.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/2 x Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.9 x 8.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Zayn al-Din",
    "med": "brass, gilded and inlaid with silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6287"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2650"
    ]
}

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