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{
    "localId": "24484",
    "label": "Standing Cup with Cover",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.808"
}

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    "id": "24484",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.808",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing Cup with Cover",
    "description": "Gourd-shaped standing cups with the stem in the form of a tree trunk originated in western Europe during the 16th century but were frequently made in Moscow a century later. This piece also has designs of conventionalized foliage and shells executed in repoussé.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1748 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.808",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "cups (drinking vessels)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.808_Back_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.808_Back_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Russian",
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": "[Mark] ГГ; AB; 1748",
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
    "reign": "Elizabeth Petrovna (1741-1762)",
    "RelatedObjects": 26390,
    "med": "silver, parcel gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3393"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "1d54591194378ff9"
}