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{
    "localId": "39385",
    "label": "Watch and Case with Japanese-Style Motifs",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.44"
}

{
    "id": "39385",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.44",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch and Case with Japanese-Style Motifs",
    "description": "During the 18th century, because the supply of Japanese lacquer was limited to that imported to Europe by the Dutch through their base in Deshima, Japan, European craftsmen introduced japanning, a type of pseudo-lacquer made with shellac.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov [Anatole Demidoff], 1st Prince of San Donato (1813–1870), Florence, Italy [date and mode of acquisition unknown]. Acquired by Tiffany & Co., New York, by 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Catalogue de montres exposées chez Tiffany & Co. ayant fait partie de la collection Demidoff, Prince de San Donato (New York: Tiffany & Co., 1893), no. 13 “Montre Louis XV, fond laque. Horloger, Jno. Russet [sic], London.”",
    "date": "Case: 1754-1755; Movement is slightly later",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.44",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "watchcases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.44_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.44_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.44_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Movement maker's mark] engraved on backplate of watch movement: Jno Russel",
        "London / 2085"
    ],
    "med": "gold, imitation lacquer, enamel, glass paste gems",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15471",
        "4073"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "170",
        "2869"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_58.44_Fnt_SL.jpg",
    "mediaId": "31a7a4bfad317903"
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