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{
    "localId": "26539",
    "label": "Mirror Case with Lovers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.95"
}

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    "id": "26539",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.95",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror Case with Lovers",
    "description": "This unusually small mirror case, perhaps for a child, depicts the meeting of two lovers. It is framed in a hexafoil, and the simple outer molding has four crouching monsters as corner terminals. A large hole is drilled in the center; holes in each of the corner terminals indicate a later use as a button or ornament. The mirror case was buried at one time, and there are losses from flaking, including the right arm of the youth.",
    "provenance": "Henri Daguerre, Paris, until 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st quarter 14th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.95",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "mirrors",
        "cases (containers)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.95_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.95_Fnt_BW_H72.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.8,
            "height": 5.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/16 x W: 2 1/4 in. (5.8 x 5.7 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "3000ebadd91164f1"
}