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    "localId": "34052",
    "label": "Carved Ram's Horn Cup with Lions and Mounted Rider",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/72.18"
}

{
    "id": "34052",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/72.18",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Carved Ram's Horn Cup with Lions and Mounted Rider",
    "description": "The exterior of this piece is intricately carved in low relief with a figure of a mounted nobleman and heraldic lions among leaf rinceaux. The cup terminates in a carved bust. This intriguing drinking cup is installed in the Chamber of Wonders with objects from Asia and Africa. Seventeenth-century collectors often could not be sure where objects obtained from sea captians and traders actually came from. We don't know where this piece was made. Do you?",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, New York; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Mrs. Henry Walters Sale, New York, May 1, 1941, no. 1025; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "1500-1700 (?) (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/72.18",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Pearl, Horn, Coral & Shell",
        "drinking horns"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_72.18_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_72.18_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/4 in. (8.26 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "carved horn (ram)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5172"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_72.18_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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