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    "localId": "23235",
    "label": "Oviform Vase",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.562"
}

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    "id": "23235",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.562",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Oviform Vase",
    "description": "This oviform vase has a \"bleu de roi\" ground, and is richly decorated with garlands of leaves in gold. It has a tall fluted neck and golden handles with rings and festoons. On the front is a painted scene with a group of peasants, and the reverse with a brightly-colored bird chasing a butterfly surrounded by flowers.  There are several similar vases in the Royal Collection in England.",
    "provenance": "E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 43;  A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1780",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.562",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.562_Side_DD_18112003.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.562_Side_DD_18112003.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CUR_48.562_Side_DD_18112003.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 16 7/16 in. (41.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "Visible marks. [Factory Mark] In blue: Intertwined Lls",
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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