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{
    "localId": "38824",
    "label": "Incense Boat",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.701"
}

{
    "id": "38824",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.701",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Boat",
    "description": "This incense boat, called a navicula (Latin for \"little boat\"), was used to store the incense that was burned as part of many church rituals, including the Mass. The boat has curved dragon-headed handles on the lid for the symbolic protection of the incense, a combination of frankincense and myrrh. The burning of incense was considered both an offering to God and an act of purification.",
    "provenance": "Dimitri Schevitch, Paris, before 1906; Sale, Georges Petit, Paris, April 4-7, 1906, no. 205; Octave Pincot, Paris, 1906, by purchase; Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, 1964, by purchase; Keir Collection (Edmund de Unger), London, 1971, by purchase; Keir Collection Sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 1997, no. 87; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase.",
    "date": "mid 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.701",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "incense boats"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.701_3Qtr_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.701_3Qtr_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.701_3Qtr_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.9,
            "height": 8.6,
            "depth": 18.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/16 x W: 3 3/8 x L: 7 3/16 in. (5.9 x 8.6 x 18.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "champlevé enamel on gilded copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "13",
        "2006",
        "2008",
        "316",
        "2007"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_44.701_Side_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "mediaId": "62984f49e4451f16"
}