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    "localId": "19505",
    "label": "Basket-Hilt Rapier",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.506"
}

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    "id": "19505",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.506",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Basket-Hilt Rapier",
    "description": "The basket shape of the hilt completely encloses the hand in a system of connected, curving bars that extend from the guard to the pommel. The blade is exceptionally long, with a flattened diamond section that turns to a hexagonal section, and is deeply grooved at the hilt.The blade is marked \"Marson,\" presumably the maker. The same mark was found on a rapier carried by Gustav II Adolph, king of Sweden during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).",
    "provenance": "Duca d'Aosta;  Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, no. 104;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1625-1650 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.506",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "rapiers"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "53 11/16 in. (136.3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "steel",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR",
        "ARM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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