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    "localId": "7505",
    "label": "Lotus-Shaped Chalice",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lotus-Shaped Chalice",
    "description": "The blue lotus is represented in numerous New Kingdom faience chalices. The Egyptian name for these chalices was the same as the word for lotus flower: \"seshen.\"",
    "provenance": "Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1922; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 274; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1290-1070 BC (New Kingdom)",
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    "language": "en",
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            "width": 16.1,
            "height": 8
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    "dimensionsRaw": "6 5/16 x 3 1/8 in. (16.1 x 8 cm)"
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    "cul": "Egyptian",
    "style": "Nineteenth Dynasty",
    "dynasty": "19th-20th Dynasty",
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