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{
    "localId": "24547",
    "label": "Flower Pot (Vase hollandois)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.630"
}

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    "id": "24547",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.630",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Flower Pot (Vase hollandois)",
    "description": "Shipping and port scenes were popular decorations for the reserves of Sèvres porcelain. A floral arrangement with grapes appears on the “back” of the piece.Dark blue ground with rectangular and circular panels with flowers and a shipping scene, which is signed, \"D.G. 1779.\"This vase might be part of the set sold to the duchesse de Mazarin in 1779.",
    "provenance": "E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1779",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.630",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.630_Back_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.630_Back_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.630_Back_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.1,
            "height": 19.5,
            "depth": 14.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 7 1/2 × W: 7 11/16 × D: 5 11/16 in. (19.1 × 19.5 × 14.4 cm); Vase H: 7 3/16 × W: 7 11/16 × D: 5 11/16 in. (18.2 × 19.5 × 14.4 cm); Base H: 1 7/8 × W: 7 1/16 × D: 5 3/8 in. (4.7 × 17.9 × 13.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Gilder's Mark] B (Boulanger",
        "1754-84)"
    ],
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916",
        "3756"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_48.630_Lft_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "0666254722a6ffb6"
}