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    "localId": "7496",
    "label": "Raqqa Lusterware Bowl",
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    "id": "7496",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Raqqa Lusterware Bowl",
    "description": "In Arab countries and Muslim realms in the Mediterranean region, artistic innovation flourished in the 9th-14th centuries. Lusterware was among the most original development of Arab potters, who mixed silver sulfides and copper oxides to create a shiny, metallic sheen on the surface of glazed earthenware bowls, plates, and other utilitarian vessels, such as this Raqqa lusterware bowl.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th-13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1044",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "bowls (vessels)"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.7,
            "height": 26
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/8 x Diam: 10 1/4 in. (6.7 x 26 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "fritware ceramic with luster decoration",
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    ],
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