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{
    "localId": "16757",
    "label": "Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre Hébert)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.588"
}

{
    "id": "16757",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.588",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sugar Bowl (Pot à sucre Hébert)",
    "description": "The pot bears the mark of Louis-Jean Thévenet, a painter of flowers active at the factory from 1741 to 1777.",
    "provenance": "E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, No. 12,  [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1757",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.588",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "sugar bowls"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.588_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.588_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.588_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.9,
            "height": 6.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with lid: 2 11/16 × Diam.with lid: 2 1/2 in. (6.9 × 6.3 cm); Bowl H: 1 15/16 × Diam: 2 3/8 in. (4.9 × 6.1 cm); Lid H: 15/16 × Diam: 2 1/2 in. (2.4 × 6.3 cm)."
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Factory Mark] On bowl: Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: E (1757); [Decorator's Mark]",
        "(comma",
        "Thévenet",
        "père?)"
    ],
    "med": "soft paste porcelain with gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4365",
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "948"
    ]
}

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