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{
    "localId": "21452",
    "label": "Bottle with Trailed Decoration",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.73"
}

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    "id": "21452",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.73",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bottle with Trailed Decoration",
    "description": "This Roman glass bottle was blown rather than being formed around a clay core, as were the earlier Egyptian examples. Invented around 50 BC in the region of Syria and Palestine, the technique of blowing glass revolutionized glassmaking.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd-5th century (Roman-Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/47.73",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bottles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_47.73_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_47.73_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_47.73_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "glass, blown; trailed decoration",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "454",
        "2003"
    ]
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_47.73_Fnt_3435.5_NG(5x7)-tms.jpg",
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