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    "localId": "40740",
    "label": "Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.521"
}

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    "id": "40740",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.521",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Vase",
    "description": "This vase has a bulbous body with a wide, spreading top and high foot. A large thuluth inscription is interspersed with two medallions with kufic script, forming a wide band around the body.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "14th century (Mamluk)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.521",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vases"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.4,
            "height": 14.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 13/16 x Diam: 5 3/4 in. (22.4 x 14.6 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Mamluk",
    "med": "brass, with silver and gold inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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