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    "localId": "19891",
    "label": "Two-Handled Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.754"
}

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    "id": "19891",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.754",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two-Handled Vase",
    "description": "This unusual red vase is part of a suite of three that Louis XVI purchased in the Porcelain Dining Room at Versailles in December 1782 for 6,000 livres. The ormolu mounts are attributed to Jean-Claude Duplessis, fils (1730-1783).",
    "provenance": "Collection of Louis XVI, King of France, Chateau de Versailles, King's Apartment, December 1782, by purchase [from the maker at the annual Sèvres Manufactory exhibition]; Philippe Sichel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, November 25, 1891, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1782",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.754",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.754_Fnt_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.754_Fnt_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_48.754_Fnt_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 21 9/16 in. (54.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Factory Mark] painted in gold: Crown and intertwined LLs; [Date] Letter painted in gold: EE [1782]; [Gilder's Mark] painted in gold: [a flower] [for Nicolas Schradre]",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "33480",
        "23403"
    ],
    "med": "hard paste porcelain, enamels, gilding, gilt-bronze mounts",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916",
        "15419",
        "33013"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "415"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "c48a6ec02e973e37"
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