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    "localId": "81256",
    "label": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.607.binding"
}

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    "id": "81256",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.607.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Five Poems (Quintet)",
    "description": "Walters manuscript W.607 is bound in late Zand lacquer boards (without a flap) with figural scenes. The boards were made in Iran. The binding dates to the 12th century AH/AD 18th. The binding's red leather doublures have gold-painted decoration.The upper board depicts Bahram Gur hunting and Fitnah carrying a cow on her shoulders. It is dated 12[0]5 AH/AD 1790-1791. The lower board depicts Khusraw watching Shirin bathing.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century AH/AD 18th century (Zand)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.607.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 18
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 11 13/16 x W: 7 1/16 in. (30 x 18 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Zand Dynasty",
    "med": "lacquer with red leather doublures with gold",
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    ],
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        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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