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    "localId": "37751",
    "label": "Figural Candlestick",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.813"
}

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    "id": "37751",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.813",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Figural Candlestick",
    "description": "The candlestick is in the form of two branches held by a nude girl with a basket of flowers and a floral wreath. At Chelsea, a candlestick was an occasion for creating lavish designs of pastoral figures surrounded by flowers.",
    "provenance": "George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1758-1769",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.813",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.5,
            "height": 19.5,
            "depth": 6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/16 × W: 7 11/16 × D: 2 3/8 in. (20.5 × 19.5 × 6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gilt on soft paste porcelain",
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