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{
    "localId": "19544",
    "label": "Ewer with Triumph of Venus and Neptune",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.278"
}

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    "id": "19544",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.278",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ewer with Triumph of Venus and Neptune",
    "description": "Painted in \"grisaille,\" this elegant ewer would originally have been paired with a basin of similar design.",
    "provenance": "Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) of Narford Hall, Norfolk, England [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Andrew Fountaine (1808-1874), [date of acquisition unknown] by inheritance; Sale of the Narford Heirlooms, London, June 16, 1884, lot 286; William A. Tyssen-Amherst (son-in-law of Andrew Fountaine, created in 1892 Baron Amherst of Hackney), Didlington Hall, Brandon, Norfolk, England [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, December 11, 1908, lot 60; Seligmann Brothers, Paris, 1908, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1567 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.278",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "ewers (vessels)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "painted enamel on copper, gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2005"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "316"
    ]
}

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