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{
    "localId": "79415",
    "label": "Bowl with faces on two sides",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2855"
}

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    "id": "79415",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2855",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bowl with faces on two sides",
    "description": "This bowl is decorated on two sides with very simplified faces, and the whole is carefully burnished to a high shine. Such bowls would have been used for food preparation or personal possessions. They might have been closed with ceramic or wood stoppers, tied in place with twine.",
    "provenance": "Jack Lenor Larsen, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, 1989 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.",
    "date": "AD 1-700 (Early Intermediate)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2855",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2855_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2855_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 6 1/2 in. (10.5 x 16.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Nazca",
    "style": "Proto-Nazca",
    "med": "earthenware",
    "creator_ids": [
        "31447"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "AME"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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