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{
    "localId": "26390",
    "label": "Standing Cup with Cover",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.809"
}

{
    "id": "26390",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.809",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing Cup with Cover",
    "description": "This vessel has designs of conventionalized foliage executed in repoussé. The lid is topped with a double-headed eagle, while Atlas, the ancient god who supported the heavens on his shoulders, serves as the cup's stem.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1760 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.809",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "drinking vessels"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.809_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.809_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.809_Fnt_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 27,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall Cup H: 10 5/8 × Diam: 3 3/4 in. (27 × 9.5 cm)Overall Lid H: 5 5/8 × Diam: 3 13/16 in. (14.3 × 9.7 cm)Overall Cup with Lid H: 15 15/16 in. (40.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Russian",
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Several marks on lip and leg of figure including the date 1760",
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
    "reign": "Elizabeth (1741-1761)",
    "med": "silver, parcel gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "69",
        "3393",
        "3423"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.809_Back_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "84e9b08692269654"
}