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    "localId": "24647",
    "label": "Bowl with Judah and Lion Surrounded by Scenes from the Book of Esther",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.46"
}

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    "id": "24647",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.46",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bowl with Judah and Lion Surrounded by Scenes from the Book of Esther",
    "description": "The source for the scenes on this bowl and on a similar one in the Moscow Kremlin Armory (inv. MP-1079) is the illustrated Bible of Nicholaus Johannes Piscator (1586-1652), a Dutch publisher and engraver. This Bible was translated into Russian in the 1670s and became a source for images on objects and church frescoes. The paintings, like the inscriptions, are freely adapted: there are more scenes on the bowl than are illustrated in the Piscator Bible, and sometimes a single scene has been painted in two parts to accommodate the lobes of the bowl. The image in the central medallion seems to allude to the young Russian Czar Peter I (r. 1682-1725), while the surrounding scenes from the Book of Esther may refer to his mother, the Czarina Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina. Formerly attributed to a Solvychegodsk workshop, the bowl is more likely to have been made in Moscow.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Saint Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1690 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.46",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "bowls (vessels)",
        "drinking vessels"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 10 1/8 in. (25.72 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Russian",
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation]Jacob’s son",
        "from whom Christ descended. Judah said [that] the lion will mightily conquer the enemies (cf. Rev. 5:5).Out of a thousand [virgins]",
        "Esther alone finds favor with the king and receives from him a royal crown on her head (cf. Esther 2:17).Mordecai served in the palace. He commands Esther not to reveal her kindred. The same he commanded about her people (cf. Esther 2:19-20).For seven days in the house of King Artaxerxes (Ahasuerus) his officials and servants made merry",
        "and people of all ages ate (cf. Esther 2:18). Two chiefs of the guard of the king’s bed",
        "grieved because Mordecai had been promoted",
        "sought to kill King Artaxerxes (Ahasuerus) (cf. Esther 2:21).Aman (Haman)",
        "most fierce enemy of the Jews",
        "swaggers [and] takes a ring from the king’s finger (cf. Esther 3:1.10).Messengers are sent by Aman (Haman) throughout Artaxerxes’ (Ahasuerus’) kingdom with a letter [commanding] to exterminate the race of the Jews in one day (cf. Esther 3:13).Esther sends the eunuch Achrathaeus (Hathach) to Mordecai to learn the truth. And Mordecai told her what had happened to him (cf. Esther 4:5-7).Esther approaches the king with a perturbed heart but not with sad news",
        "[and] summons to a great banquet (cf. Esther 5:1-4).Aman (Haman) is accused",
        "the queen reveals his evil deed",
        "and he is hung upon the cross prepared for Mordecai (cf. Esther 7:5-10).[Transcription] С(ы)нъ Иаковлевъ",
        "ωт негó же изыде Х(ристо)с /  Iуда рече",
        "крѣпко жъ лвà враги победитъ [Сын Яковлев",
        "от него же изыде Христос / Иуда рече: Крепко же льва враги победит] (cf. Rev. 5:5)  Едина ωт тысiащей Есвиръ угóдна ц(а)реви бываетъ",
        "ωтнюдоу же ц(а)рскïи венéцъ на главѣ восприïмáетъ. Есвиръ Глав(а) в",
        "стих(ъ) зi (cf. Esther 2:17) Мардохéй убо служáше во дворѣ ц(а)ревѣ. Есфирь заповѣдает рода своего не ѧвлѧти. Сице заповѣда о людехъ своихъ (cf. Esther 2:19-20)  По сéдмь днéй в домоу у ц(а)рѧ Артаξéрξа веможи его и раби веселiахоусiа и всiакъ всiакъ возрастъ питáшесiа (cf. Esther 2:18)  Двà начáлнiшïи стрáжи лóжа ц(а)рева оскóрблении соуть iако препочтенъ бысть Мардохéй искáху Артаξерξа ц(а)рѧ убити (cf. Esther 2:21)  Амáнъ июдéωмъ прелютыи врáгъ себѣ превозношáетъ",
        "перстень от ωт ц(а)рьского пéрста взимáетъ. Есфиръ Гла(ва) г",
        "с(ти)х θ (cf. Esther 3:1.10)  От Амана с пïсáнïемъ послы посылáютсѧ во все ц(а)рьство Артаξерксово да побиютъ р[o]дъ жидóвскïи в дéнь единъ (cf. Esther 3:13)  Есфирь скопцà Ахраθéа спроситъ ïстины к Мородхею посылаетъ. Что имъ слоучишасѧ Мардохéи же сказà éй бывшее (cf. Esther 4:5-7)  Сердцемъ смоущéнным но нескорбною вѣстию Есфïръ ко ц(а)рю прибѣгаетъ",
        "на вечерю вéлию призывает. Есθ(иръ) Гла(ва) е",
        "с(ти)х s (cf. Esther 5:1-4)  Оглагóланъ Амáнъ бывáетъ",
        "ц(а)рïца злодѣѧнïе расширѧетъ",
        "Мардохею соωруженныи к(рес)тъ сáмъ претеръпѣвáетъ. Глав(а) з (cf. Esther 7:5-10)"
    ],
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
    "reign": "Peter I the Great (1682-1725)",
    "med": "silver gilt, painted and filigree enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214",
        "19001"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "69",
        "956",
        "563",
        "662",
        "3103",
        "3104"
    ]
}

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