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    "localId": "13297",
    "label": "Powder Flask",
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    "id": "13297",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.559",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Powder Flask",
    "description": "The coarse powder for the charge that propels the bullet was carried in a larger flask, and finer priming powder, in a smaller one. Leather was saturated with water to make it malleable for shaping, for example, on a mold. After it dried, it could also be embossed or carved.",
    "provenance": "Clements;  Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 20;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1550-1575 (Renaissance)",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.5,
            "height": 16
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in. (21.5 x 16 cm)"
}

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    "med": "molded leather, steel",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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