I am packaging an image into jSON and sending it to the client .... On the client side I wish to display this data as a image ...
I am not sending the Image URL via JSO
You cannot send binary data to the browser inside JSON.
You can use b64 encoding and the DataURI (MDC) (Wikipedia) in a browser that understands it
Since the comments that came after my post all have an actual example, here is one from Wikipedia:
Alternatively convert to SVG which is also textual