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    "localId": "82353",
    "label": "Spoon with Images of Fish",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.969"
}

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    "id": "82353",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.969",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spoon with Images of Fish",
    "description": "On the spoon's bowl, two blue, red, turquoise and white fish, in pierced plique-à-jour enamel, swim among bulrushes. The fish on the reverse are speckled and hover in the water above the sand. Water eddies are suggested by parallel lines of filigree on grey enamel. The handle is twisted and terminates in a filigree-enameled section and a finial.Grachev incorporated a similar fish into a plique-à-jour teacup, saucer, and spoon, which were exhibited in Munich in 1986/87.",
    "provenance": "Russian Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 6, 1994, Lot 260; purchased by Jean M. Riddell (Leo Kaplan as agent), Washington, D.C., December 8, 1994; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2010.",
    "date": "before 1873",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.969",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "spoons"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.5,
            "height": 6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 7 5/16 x W: 2 3/8 in. (18.5 x 6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Symbols] crossed anchors and scepter; [Mark] In Cyrillic: GR",
    "med": "silver gilding, filigree and plique-à-jour enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "31676"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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