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    "localId": "28494",
    "label": "Bonbonnière with Pastoral Scene",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.449"
}

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    "id": "28494",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.449",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bonbonnière with Pastoral Scene",
    "description": "Both the lid and container of this bonbonnière, or sweet-meat container, have central circular fields and radiating panels carved in relief. On the cover, a seated nude woman caresses a dog; on the container itself, a shepherd holding a crook pats his dog. The shallowly and rather summarily rendered radiating panels show vignettes with shepherds, shepherdesses, watchdogs, and sheep. A narrow frieze running around the side of the container illustrates a boar hunt.The two sections of the bonbonnière are attached by a gilt-metal hinge. A hole in the rim opposite the hinge indicates that the box may also have had a metal clasp.Incised and blackened in the inside of the container is an owner's monogram, MT. The cover bears a paper label: MACKAY & CHISHOLM/GOLSMITHS./57 Princess Street/EDINBURGH.",
    "provenance": "Owned by Mackay and Chisholm, Edinburgh; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1730-1750",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.449",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bonbon dishes"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.7,
            "height": 4.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "W:  2 5/8 × D: 1 11/16 in. (6.7 × 4.3 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Monogram] Incised and blackened in the inside of the container: MT; [Label] On paper: MACKAY & CHISHOLM/GOLSMITHS./57 Princess Street/EDINBURGH",
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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