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{
    "localId": "14699",
    "label": "\"\"Kovsh\"\" with Imperial Eagle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1076"
}

{
    "id": "14699",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1076",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "\"\"Kovsh\"\" with Imperial Eagle",
    "description": "This kovsh (ceremonial cup) is carved from an unusually large piece of nephrite, a type of jade. The underside of the handle is inscribed May 6, 1911. In the old style (Julian) calendar, May 6 was Nicholas II’s birth date, and the kovsh therefore might have been intended as a presentation gift to celebrate the tsar’s 43rd birthday, although the marks on the metal show that it was made years earlier.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1899-1903",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1076",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "kovshi",
        "drinking vessels"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1076_VwA_TR_T02IV.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1076_VwA_TR_T02IV.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.1076_VwA_TR_T02IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 32.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 12 5/8 in. (10.5 x 32.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Mark] On handle: 88; [Inscribed] May 6",
        "1911"
    ],
    "med": "nephrite, silver, gold, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, and emeralds",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "69",
        "563",
        "2062",
        "3423"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.1076_Side_DD_T17-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "60589a04dd8bffce"
}