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    "localId": "30135",
    "label": "Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with a Boar",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.1"
}

{
    "id": "30135",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with a Boar",
    "description": "Tiles of this kind, known in Spanish as socarrats, were arranged facing down between ceiling crossbeams. This one, together with Walters 48.2106.2, 48.2106.8 and 48.2106.9, comes from a large residence in the southern Spanish city of Valencia. Little is known about the original use of the building, demolished around 1890: it probably belonged to a local aristocrat. The images of hounds and wild animals on its ceiling alluded to hunting, a favorite sport of the nobility.",
    "provenance": "[House at 14 calle de Roteros (?)] Valencia; Sale, ca. 1890 (?); William R. Hearst, San Simeon, California, ca. 1930, by purchase; Hearst estate, 1951, by bequest [inv. 2597, lot s/b 569, no. 92]; Walters Art Museum, 1958, by purchase.",
    "date": "1396-1410 (Late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "ceiling tiles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2106.1_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2106.1_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.2106.1_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.2,
            "height": 36.6,
            "depth": 3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 11/16 x W: 14 7/16 x D: 1 3/16 in. (32.2 x 36.6 x 3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Valencian",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "reign": "Martin the Humane (1396-1410)",
    "med": "earthenware with glaze and black paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6242"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1957",
        "453"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_48.2106.1_Back_DD_AT22_38469-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "193c831e5161c47b"
}