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    "localId": "27904",
    "label": "Pauldron and Vambrace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.539"
}

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    "id": "27904",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.539",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pauldron and Vambrace",
    "description": "This right pauldron (shoulder defense) and vambrace (arm defense) are finely etched with bands enclosing mythological figures, animals, and birds; alternate areas of the background are blackened and gilded. Both pieces are embossed with a lion mask.",
    "provenance": "Sir Guy Francis Laking (1875-1919), London;  Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 6, 1924, no. 282;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1580 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.539",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pauldrons",
        "vambraces"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "25 5/16 in. (64.3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gilded, etched, and embossed steel, leather",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ARM",
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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