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    "localId": "1298",
    "label": "Powder Flask",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "1298",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.592",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Powder Flask",
    "description": "The coarse powder for the charge that propels the bullet was carried in a large flask, and priming powder, in a smaller one. The leather was saturated with water so that it could be shaped on a mold.",
    "provenance": "Londesborough;  Londesborough Sale, Christie's, London, 1888, no. 114 (?);  Clements [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 24;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1550-1575 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.592",
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    "language": "en",
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        "powder flasks"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.9,
            "height": 12.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "6 1/4 x 5 1/16 in. (15.9 x 12.9 cm)"
}

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    "med": "molded leather, wood, iron",
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    ],
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        "BAR"
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