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{
    "localId": "323",
    "label": "Spear for the Guard of Emperor Ferdinand I",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1327"
}

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    "id": "323",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1327",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spear for the Guard of Emperor Ferdinand I",
    "description": "This spear is one of the ceremonial staff weapons carried by the lieutenants of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I (1503-64) at his coronation in 1558. He was the father of Emperor Maximilian II and grandfather of Archduke Albert.",
    "provenance": "Guard of Kaiser Ferdinand I [1503-1564]. Richard Zschille Collection; Zschille Sale, London, 1897, no. 107. Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5-6, 1924, no. 218; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1558 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1327",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "spears"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1327_DetA_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1327_DetA_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 83 1/4 in. (211.46 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Etched into blade on both sides near tip: K F (Kaiser Ferdinand I) 1558",
    "med": "steel (wooden shaft and fabrid-leather, silver wrapped thread, and silk-are replacements)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211",
        "6521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN",
        "ARM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994",
        "3309"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_51.1327_DetB_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cb2479665ad2e8c7"
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