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{
    "localId": "21618",
    "label": "Salt Cellar",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.33"
}

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    "id": "21618",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.33",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Salt Cellar",
    "description": "The shape of the salt cellar with its concave hexagonal body is similar to Walters 44.360. The decoration is as follows:Within the receptacle (saleron) is a scene of Adonis or Meleager shooting an arrow at a boar which bolts towards a wood pursued by two hounds. The flat rim is decorated with scrolls and flowers and edged with a line of semi-circles drawn in black on a white ground enclosing rosettes composed of black dots. On the body, each of the six sides displays a figure of a deity with distinguishing emblems: Jupiter, in armored breast-plate, crowned and holding a scepter, standing with his eagle between his legs, spreading its wings; Juno, turning her profile to the left, crowned and holding a long rod entwined with a snake, behind her the peacock; Diana, accompanied by two hounds, running to the right holding a crescent in her left hand and a spear in her right; Mercury, stepping to the left, holding the caduceus, beside him the cock; swaggering Mars, brandishing shield and falchion; armored Minerva, holding a furled flag and a shield embossed with the head of Medusa, at her feet the owl. The six figures are united by a continuous landscape of varying shades of green and blue and by a black background powdered with rosettes and tiny stars.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1625 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.33",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "saltcellars"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.9,
            "height": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/2 x W: 5 5/16 in. (8.9 x 13.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6425"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2406",
        "2747"
    ]
}

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