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{
    "localId": "97021",
    "label": "Powder Flask",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "97021",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Powder Flask",
    "description": "Luxury powder flasks served as highly visible badges of ranks. Many highly decorated flasks, like this example, embody all the allure and characteristics of a work of art. This flask depicts an ancient Greek story in which the youthful Paris must reward the most beautiful woman in the world with a golden apple.",
    "date": "c. 1590",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.666",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60778334"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.666/1916.666_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.666/1916.666_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.666"
}

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    "tec": "gilt brass over fabric covered wood",
    "tombstone": "Powder Flask, c. 1590. Italy, 16th century. Gilt brass over fabric covered wood; overall: 19.4 x 12.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.666",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "didYouKnow": "This powder flask depicts a mythological scene that precipitated the Trojan War. Here we see the Trojan prince Paris giving a golden apple to Aphrodite, the goddess who reciprocates by offering him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.",
            "page_number": "cat. #335",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mention: p. 155, F36",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n229"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 175, cat. no. 248"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "p. 195, cat. no. 250"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.666",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:13:32.648000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.666/1916.666_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97021,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "gilt brass over fabric covered wood",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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