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{
    "localId": "2742",
    "label": "Bonbonnière",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.121"
}

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    "id": "2742",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.121",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bonbonnière",
    "description": "Kings and Queens would often present small gold boxes to ambassadors as diplomatic gifts and to courtiers as payment for services. Made of a variety of precious materials – including gold, enamel, semiprecious stones, lacquer, and tortoiseshell – and designed for a variety of uses – ranging from storing snuff to confections - valuable boxes were coveted and enthusiastically collected. Displaying one’s collection of prized boxes or stylishly retrieving one from a pocket were important social rituals; these objects revealed a person’s tastes, interests, and erudition. It is likely that this box was designed to be a bonboninere, or box for sweets.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore (date and mode unknown); by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1785",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.121",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "comfit boxes",
        "bonbonnieres"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.121_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.121_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.121_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.5,
            "height": 7.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 x Diam: 2 15/16 in. (2.5 x 7.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Maker’s Mark] on interior side",
        "lid and base and exterior bezel",
        "indicating the work of Claude-Pierre Pottier: crowned fleur de lis",
        "flanked by two grains de remède above Maltese cross with PPC; [Mark of Assayer] on the interior side",
        "lid",
        "and basses and exterior bezel",
        "indicating Henry Clavel II and Jean-Francois Kalendrin: two entwined Ls; [Mark of Warden] on the interior side",
        "lid",
        "and base",
        "indicating the year 1785: script P",
        "crowned and enclosing on the left the incuse figures 85."
    ],
    "med": "guilloché gold, enamel, diamond, pearl",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3581"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.121_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "272a11ff83fe2e00"
}