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    "localId": "27099",
    "label": "Gingerbread Mold with Lovers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2329"
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    "id": "27099",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2329",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Gingerbread Mold with Lovers",
    "description": "Very few 15th-century molds made for baking have been preserved. The small shape suggests a specialty product, very likely an inexpensive spiced bread, such as gingerbread. Since the baked goods depicted a couple about to have sex, they were probably intended for the revels associated with peasant weddings or for sale at village fairs.",
    "provenance": "Ex coll: Oscar Bondy; Leopold Blumka, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, January 1973, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1475-1500 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2329",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "molds"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19,
            "height": 11.5,
            "depth": 4.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (19 x 11.5 x 4.4 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "earthenware with lead glaze",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6211"
    ],
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    ],
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        "2747"
    ]
}

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