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    "localId": "24882",
    "label": "Watch with Perseus and Andromeda",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.178"
}

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    "id": "24882",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.178",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Perseus and Andromeda",
    "description": "The case of the watch is enameled and painted with a scene of the Greek hero Perseus rescuing the beautiful maiden Andromeda, who was about to be sacrificed by her father to a sea monster.",
    "provenance": "Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870); Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [on 1893 list, no. 73]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1775",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.178",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "watchcases"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.178_Fnt_NG_1108.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On movement: Baillon à Paris",
    "med": "copper, enamel, paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6290",
        "15442",
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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