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    "localId": "82517",
    "label": "Dish",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.842"
}

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    "id": "82517",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.842",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dish",
    "description": "In the center of this dish, decorated in the Islamic taste, appears a large rosette in dark and light blue and white. It is bordered with scalloped, repoussé recesses decorated with blue quatrefoil motifs against a gilt ground. The floral border is in plique-à-jour enamel in a gilt ground. On the dish's rim, complex curves alternate with circles.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Leo Kaplan, New York; purchased by Jean M. Riddell, Washington, D.C., June 6, 1995; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2010.",
    "date": "1892",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.842",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "plates (dishes)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.842_Fnt_DD_T15.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.842_Fnt_DD_T15.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1,
            "height": 22.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3/8 x Diam: 8 7/8 in. (1 x 22.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Maker's marks] In Cyrillic: AK; LO over 1892 (for Lev Oleks master); [Symbols] oval with 88",
        "St. George"
    ],
    "med": "gilded silver, painted filigree and plique-à-jour enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2979"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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