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    "localId": "19971",
    "label": "Dagger Handle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.571"
}

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    "id": "19971",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.571",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dagger Handle",
    "description": "This is a rare example of a 16th-century Turkish ivory hilt, delicately carved in relief with arabesque designs of interlacing foliage scrolls.",
    "provenance": "Michel Boy, Paris, by purchase;  Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 1905, no. 337;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 16th century (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.571",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "hilts"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.6,
            "height": 4.6,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 3/16 x 1 13/16 x 7/8 in. (10.6 x 4.6 x 2.2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Ottoman",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "reign": "Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566)",
    "med": "walrus ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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