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    "localId": "21913",
    "label": "Chatelaine and Watch Depicting a Young Couple Interrupted by a Farmer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.150"
}

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    "id": "21913",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.150",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Chatelaine and Watch Depicting a Young Couple Interrupted by a Farmer",
    "description": "The watch is enameled with a scene of a young couple interrupted by a farmer and is signed by the enamelist Dailly.  Since the 19th century, the watch has been suspended from a chatelaine decorated with country scenes in the manner of the noted rococo artist François Boucher.",
    "provenance": "Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Tiffany & Co., New York, 1893, lot 28; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1893, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Watch: 1761-1762; Chatelaine: ca. 1830",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.150",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "cases",
        "chatelaines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_58.150_Fnt_TR_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_58.150_Fnt_TR_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 in. (5.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On movement: Roland Pro a Paris no. 121",
    "med": "gold, \"\"en plein\"\" enamel, mother-of-pearl, paint",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "7958",
        "4202",
        "2724"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_58.150_Fnt_NG_1098.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9aa0bd43a320c06b"
}