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    "localId": "20643",
    "label": "Musical Mode, Possibly Kanara Putra",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.882"
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    "id": "20643",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.882",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Musical Mode, Possibly Kanara Putra",
    "description": "Two finely dressed noblemen play music under a canopy, while a third attends them, listening to their sound. The central figure’s stringed instrument is a vina; his companion accompanies him on a striped tanpura. The painting belongs to a series that illustrates poetic verses evoking the moods of specific musical modes: masculine \"ragas,\" feminine \"raginis,\" and their associated \"putras,\" or “sons.” This scene most likely illustrates the ragaputra known as \"Kanara,\" which one text describes in this way: “His body perfumed with delicious scents of various flowers, clothed in yellow robes, Kanara, extremely versed in musical entertainment, fascinates the dwellers of heaven.”",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1700",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.882",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.9,
            "height": 16.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 x 6 1/2 in. (22.9 x 16.5 cm)"
}

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