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{
    "localId": "24053",
    "label": "Covered Cup with Large Foot",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.807"
}

{
    "id": "24053",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.807",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Covered Cup with Large Foot",
    "description": "Around the body of the cup is a silver envelope with pierced designs and three portrait medallions in repoussé.  The finial of the cover is designed as a double-headed eagle.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1745 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.807",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "drinking vessels"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.807_VwB_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.807_VwB_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.807_VwB_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 13/16 in. (14.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Russian",
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": [
        "Bears the marks of an unknown maker 'VD'",
        "who was active 1741-1753. It also bears the assayer's mark of Andrei Zaitsev who was active from 1735-1749. Several marks on rim: Moscow 1745."
    ],
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
    "reign": "Elizabeth I (1741-1762)",
    "med": "silver, parcel gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "69"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.807_VwB_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "91db3bf4be44422c"
}