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    "localId": "39933",
    "label": "Book Cover with the Seven Jewels",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/F.132"
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    "id": "39933",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book Cover with the Seven Jewels",
    "description": "Every successful and righteous ruler, it was said, has a set of seven \"jewels.\" They are: the elephant (that is, an army's elephant brigade); above it, the wheel (here signifying the spread of Buddhism); the general; the minister; the queen; the horse (that is, the cavalry); and, above it, the gem (here referring to the Buddhist triple gem of the Buddha, the teaching, and the monkhood).",
    "provenance": "Jacques Caramagues, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, July 14, 1986, by purchase.",
    "date": "1150-1250",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/F.132",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.1,
            "height": 71.4,
            "depth": 3.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/2 x W: 28 1/8 x D: 1 3/8 in. (24.1 x 71.4 x 3.5 cm)"
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