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{
    "localId": "20837",
    "label": "Double Comb with Scenes of Courtly Life",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.215"
}

{
    "id": "20837",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.215",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Double Comb with Scenes of Courtly Life",
    "description": "Ivory  or a fine-grained wood were the materials preferred for combs, with ivory the most popular for luxury goods. Indeed this comb depicts typical pastimes of wealthy nobles. On one side, couples dance in a garden as a seated lady plays a portable organ. The other side depicts hunters, their hunting dogs, and a deer that has been trapped. The teeth are original wtih fine teeth on one side and coarser ones on the other. Traces of the original paint on the trees and costumes and the gilding on the hair of the figures are preserved.",
    "provenance": "Richard Forrer, Strasbourg [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1400-1430 (Late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.215",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "combs (grooming tools)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.215_Fnt_TR_T96IV.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.215_Fnt_TR_T96IV.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.215_Fnt_TR_T96IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.6,
            "height": 14,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 9/16 × W: 5 1/2 × D: 1/4 in. (11.6 × 14 × 0.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Italian",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory, paint, gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "961",
        "2289",
        "3089",
        "3316",
        "3310"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_71.215_3Qtr_DD_AT18-036358-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9fec9910e09ee5dc"
}