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{
    "localId": "18374",
    "label": "Mirror Cover with a Couple Playing Chess",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.268"
}

{
    "id": "18374",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.268",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror Cover with a Couple Playing Chess",
    "description": "This ivory mirror back shows a couple playing chess, a game symbolic of a young man's battle to win his lady's heart. The scene is surrounded by a ten-lobed frame adorned with masks and four crouched dragons fill the four corners.",
    "provenance": "Freiherr von Wambolt, Aschaffenburg, 1847; Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck, Munich; Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck Sale, Munich, June 6-7, 1904, no. 308; Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 14th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.268",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "mirrors",
        "cases",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.268_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.268_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.8,
            "height": 10.5,
            "depth": 1.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: H: 3 7/8 × W: 4 1/8 × D: 5/8 in. (9.84 × 10.48 × 1.59 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2829",
        "3089"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_71.268_NF_3790-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b5a13047ff839735"
}