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{
    "localId": "27098",
    "label": "Octagonal Box",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.218"
}

{
    "id": "27098",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.218",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Octagonal Box",
    "description": "This box is chiseled, partially enameled, and set with three oval portrait miniatures representing:1. Napoleon I (1767-1821) wearing the uniform of \"chausseurs à cheval.\" Visible on his chest is the star of the Legion of Honor.2. The \"King of Rome\" (1811-1832), Napoleon's son by his second wife the Empress Marie-Louise. He wears the band and star of the Legion of Honor.3. Empress Marie-Louise (1791-1847), the daughter of Francis I of Austria, who married Napoleon in 1810. The bees surrounding the miniatures were imperial symbols alluding to the Napoleon's royal predecessors, the Merovingian Frankish kings who ruled France from the 5th-8th centuries. Jewels discovered in their tombs were mistakenly identified as representing bees rather than cicadas.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1813",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.218",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "snuffboxes"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.218_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.218_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.218_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 5.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "13/16 x 2 1/8 in. (2 x 5.4 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gold, enamel, watercolor on ivory, glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2689",
        "1954"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_57.218_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "aa17d52e8bd2a6e9"
}