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{
    "localId": "25050",
    "label": "Mirror Cover with a Lover Crowned",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.284"
}

{
    "id": "25050",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.284",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror Cover with a Lover Crowned",
    "description": "This ivory, once the protective case for a disk-shaped mirror, represents a young man who kneels and is crowned with a wreath by his lady. The whole has a circular frame and originally had four crouching monsters filling the four corners, three of which still remain.",
    "provenance": "Victor Gay, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 23, 1909, no. 76; Jacques Seligmann, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1300-1325 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.284",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "mirrors",
        "cases, plaques"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.284_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.284_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_71.284_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.9,
            "height": 8.3,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: H: 3 1/2 × W: 3 1/4 × D: 3/8 in. (8.89 × 8.26 × 0.95 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3089"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_71.284_Back_DD_T07.jpg",
    "mediaId": "46646365adc7c174"
}