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    "localId": "6845",
    "label": "Carrying Case and Enameled Watch with Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.118"
}

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    "id": "6845",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.118",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Carrying Case and Enameled Watch with Flowers",
    "description": "Enameled watches from the first half of the 1600s are exceedingly rare.  These watches were purchased for their cases, as show pieces; the movements inserted in them were of a lower quality and poor timekeepers even for the period.",
    "provenance": "George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1640 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.118",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "cases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.118_Fnt_NG_3518.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.118_Fnt_NG_3518.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.118_Fnt_NG_3518.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Inner case diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signed] Pierre le Blonde",
    "med": "gilded brass, iron, silk, and velvet carrying case; gold, glass, and basse-taille enamel case; gold and basse-taille enamel dial; partially gilded brass and steel movement",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4837",
        "2593"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "316"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_58.118_Fnt_NG_3518.jpg",
    "mediaId": "021107525c940c67"
}