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{
    "localId": "83489",
    "label": "Binding from Book of Kings (Shahnama)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.600.binding"
}

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    "id": "83489",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.600.binding",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Book of Kings (Shahnama)",
    "description": "This black lacquer binding from Walters manuscript W.600 has lobed central ovals and pendants and is not contemporary with the manuscript. It probably dates to the 13th century AH/AD 19th.",
    "provenance": "Ahmad [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression with name on fol. 1a]; Unknown owner, 1789 [mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership entry dated 12 Jumadá I 1204 AH/AD 1789 on fol. 1a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "13th century AH/AD 19th century (?)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.600.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.600.binding_TopExtClsd_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.600.binding_TopExtClsd_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 12 13/16 x W: 7 1/2 in. (32.5 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "black lacquer with gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "17248"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.600.binding_BotExtClsd_DD.jpg",
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