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{
    "localId": "10072",
    "label": "Watch in Pair Case with the Judgment of Hercules",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.213"
}

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    "id": "10072",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.213",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch in Pair Case with the Judgment of Hercules",
    "description": "The outer, pair case is embossed with a scene of Hercules standing between Wisdom and Beauty.  Manly, an immigrant to England from Augsburg, became King George III's favorite casemaker.",
    "provenance": "Harding, New York;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, October 1919, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1750-1760",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.213",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watches",
        "cases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_58.213_3519-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 15/16 in. (5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] on backplate:  Jno. Ellicott",
        "London",
        "3078;[Signature] on case: HManley",
        "with date letter \"\"O\"\" for 1729; and \"\"J.B.\"\""
    ],
    "dynasty": "House of Hanover",
    "reign": "George III (1760-1820)",
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8170",
        "8169"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "98c7e57ccc8cc746"
}