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{
    "localId": "434",
    "label": "Monkey Pomander",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.487"
}

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    "id": "434",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.487",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Monkey Pomander",
    "description": "An enameled gold pomander, the round base with a mottled grey crouching monkey chained to a tree trunk, an apple in his paw, within a vari-colored wreath of raised sprigs of fruit and flowers, the hinged pierced back with a flat wreath round a central rosette \"en suite,\" containing the pad which was impregnated with musk and other aromatic substances. Four hanging chains attached to a corona with four applied cinquefoils and a suspension loop.The pomander retains its original box 73.6.",
    "provenance": "Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.487",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "pomanders"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.487_FntA_TR_C79IA.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.487_FntA_TR_C79IA.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 1/8 in. (2.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gold, enamel, gem",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2227",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "8e183c52c2316146"
}