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    "localId": "92366",
    "label": "Top Binding Board from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.binding.1"
}

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    "id": "92366",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.binding.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Top Binding Board from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusraw Dihlavi",
    "description": "This is the top board of the separated/detached binding of W.624.This binding from Walters manuscript W.624 is composed of lacquer with pictorial scenes. The upper cover depicts an encounter between a prince and a reclusive sage; the lower cover depicts a host of fairies pummeling some outnumbered divs. The doublures are decorated with a field of small floral pattern. The binding was restored probably in Europe in the 13th century AH/AD 19th.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1597-1598 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.binding.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bindings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.9,
            "height": 19.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Binding H: 11 3/8 × W: 7 9/16 in. (28.9 × 19.2 cm); Folio: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (28.5 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Mughal",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "med": "paint and gold on paper and papier mâché with varnished lacquer",
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    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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