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    "localId": "80429",
    "label": "Gourd-Shaped Bowl",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2009.20.274"
}

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    "id": "80429",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2009.20.274",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gourd-Shaped Bowl",
    "description": "On the swelling organic form of a gourd, the artist incised curved forms that give the viewer an impression of a monstrous animal. While very abstracted, the design  is the head of a crocodilian creature. The stylized and simplified decoration recalls not only hieroglyphs but also the woven patterns of Maya blouses, which serve to identify their wearers’ towns of origin even to the present day.",
    "provenance": "J. Guy Puerto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1961, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.",
    "date": "450-650 CE (Middle Classic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/2009.20.274",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 11,
    "pageCount": 11,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.4,
            "height": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/2 x Diam: 5 5/16 in. (11.43 x 13.46 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Maya",
    "med": "earthenware, burnished slip, with incising",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4619"
    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2988"
    ]
}

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