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{
    "localId": "14413",
    "label": "Oval Locket with the Four Elements",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.323"
}

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    "id": "14413",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.323",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Oval Locket with the Four Elements",
    "description": "This very refined painted enamel represents female personifications of the four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. It was probably produced in the French city of Blois, possibly in the Toutin family workshop, which had developed new techniques that permitted the use of a white background for enamels instead of the earlier black or dark blue. The locket contained a watercolor miniature of a lady (by another artist) and could have been worn on a chain around the neck or hung from a sash or girdle.",
    "provenance": "George Robinson Harding, London; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1650 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.323",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "lockets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.323_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.323_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.323_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.2,
            "height": 4.5,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 × W: 1 3/4 × D: 3/16 in. (7.2 × 4.5 × 0.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "painted enamel, gold, pearl",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2593",
        "15350"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_44.323_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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}