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{
    "localId": "28103",
    "label": "Paperweight",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.400"
}

{
    "id": "28103",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.400",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Paperweight",
    "description": "Mammoth tusks preserved in the Arctic permafrost provided a ready supply of ivory. This paperweight shows an Inuit or Yupik family and their reindeer.",
    "provenance": "Tiffany & Co., New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1916[1]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Illustrated and credited to the \"\"Collection of Henry Walters, Esq.\"\" in George Frederick Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant in Art, in Archaeology, and in Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1916), between pages 126 and 127.",
    "date": "late 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.400",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "paperweights"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.8,
            "height": 18.5,
            "depth": 9.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/8 × W: 7 5/16 × D: 3 9/16 in. (2.8 × 18.5 × 9.1 cm)"
}

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    "med": "mammoth ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_71.400_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "106b2521281c9b38"
}