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{
    "localId": "77876",
    "label": "Left Side of a Double-page Illumination",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.7A"
}

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    "id": "77876",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.7A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Left Side of a Double-page Illumination",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.563 contains text about recitation and commentary on the manuscript. It is decorated with a central pendant medallion and four lobed rosettes.",
    "provenance": "Sultan 'Uthman Khan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased bequest (waqf) statement and stamp on fol. 3a]; Sultan Bayezid II [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal on fol. 8a]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.563.7A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.563.7a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.563.7a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 40,
            "height": 31
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 3/4 x W: 12 3/16 in. (40 x 31 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Timurid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thin laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.563.7a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "78d1e149a3c245c7"
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