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    "localId": "25756",
    "label": "Allegory of Smell",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.931"
}

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    "id": "25756",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.931",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Allegory of Smell",
    "description": "\"The Allegory of Smell\" is originally from a series of statuettes representing the personification of the five senses.These statuettes exhibit the masterly sculptural quality of Meissen porcelain between 1733 and 1775 when J. J. Kändler served as a chief modeler.",
    "provenance": "King Collection; Jacques Seligmann, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1733-1740",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.931",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "statuettes (statues)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.931_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "11 5/16 in. (28.7 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gilt on hard paste porcelain with glaze and paint",
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        "3100"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
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