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    "localId": "8596",
    "label": "Watch in Pair Case",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.197"
}

{
    "id": "8596",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.197",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch in Pair Case",
    "description": "The case is embossed with a scene of Alexander the Great with his wife Roxane, daughter of Oxyartes, the Bactrian.",
    "provenance": "Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870);  Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 82);  Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1770",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.197",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "watchcases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.197_Fnt_NG_1106.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Backplate engraved: Wm. Grantham",
        "London 12019;[Stamp] On case: P (for 1770); [Initials] I. W."
    ],
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16139"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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