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    "localId": "29041",
    "label": "Banquet Couch",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2365"
}

{
    "id": "29041",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2365",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Banquet Couch",
    "description": "The dining room, or \"triclinium,\" of a Roman house derived its name from the three couches that were grouped at right angles to one another in a U-shape.  Wealthy citizens ate while reclining on these couches.  On this example, bronze fittings decorate a wood frame (restored).  Straps originally would have supported a mattress covered with luxurious textiles.  The ends of the couch are decorated with bronze fulcra, the curving ends of the armrests, which terminate in lion heads in the front and duck heads in the back.  Couches were highly valued pieces of furniture that were often buried with honored family members.",
    "provenance": "[Found in a Chamber tomb near Canossa (?)]; Arnold Ruesch, Zurich; Ruesch Collection Sale, Lucerne, 1936; William Randolph Hearst, San Simeon, 1936, by purchase; Joseph Brummer, New York, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N4718; assembled as \"\"Honor chair\"\"]; Brummer Collection Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, June 8, 1949, p. 8, no. 38; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "1st century BC (Late Hellenistic-early Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2365",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "sofas",
        "couches"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.2365_Fnt_TR_T88IIA.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.2365_Fnt_TR_T88IIA.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.2365_Fnt_TR_T88IIA.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 81.2,
            "height": 194.9,
            "depth": 71.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 31 15/16 x W: 76 3/4 x D: 28 1/4 in. (81.2 x 194.9 x 71.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "bronze, wood frame, bedding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2507",
        "2237"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "6f5112366ad34de7"
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