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    "localId": "28622",
    "label": "Cup and Saucer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.669"
}

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    "id": "28622",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.669",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cup and Saucer",
    "description": "In addition to having sprays of flowers painted in blue, these pieces are decorated with raised prunus blossoms. The molded decoration could have been inspired either by a Chinese prototype or by a Meissen copy of a Chinese ware.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1757-1758",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.669",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "saucers"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.669_DetA_B_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.669_DetA_B_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.669_DetA_B_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 13.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 7/8 x W: 5 3/8 in. (7.3 x 13.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Factory Mark] On cup and saucer: Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter on cup: e (1757); Letter on saucer: F (1758); [Decorator's Mark] On cup: F (Fontaine); On saucer: H and Y (Houry and Fouré)",
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3334"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_48.669_PcA_BW.jpg",
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}