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    "localId": "195",
    "label": "Circular Medallion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1846"
}

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    "id": "195",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1846",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Circular Medallion",
    "description": "On this medallion, Napoleon is idealized as a Roman emperor crowned with a laurel wreath. He is identified as the French emperor (r. 1804-14 and 1815) and as king of Italy (r. 1805-14). Sauvage, who left his native Antwerp for Paris in 1774, became famous for painting porcelain to resemble marble.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1805",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1846",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "medallions"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1846_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1846_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.8,
            "height": 34.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "13 11/16 x 13 11/16 in. (34.8 x 34.8 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Empire",
    "med": "porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6524"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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