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    "localId": "30221",
    "label": "Mirror Case with the Gift of the Comb",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.269"
}

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    "id": "30221",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.269",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror Case with the Gift of the Comb",
    "description": "A couple is seen in the center of the composition; the gentleman, in belted robe, offers a comb to his lady. She is dressed in a \"houppelande,\" with long pendants from the elbows, and her hair is braided and dressed in a cap over the ears. The landscape consists of a stylized castle at each side, a tree at the center, and a boulderlike ground plane. The subject is contained within a quatrefoil of tracery with leaf terminals. The circular mirror form is brought to a square with four leaf-corner projections with incised veins.",
    "provenance": "Lord H. Gibson-Carmichael Collection [date and mode of acqusition unknown]; Lord H. Gibson-Carmichael Sale, London, May 12-13, 1902; George R. Harding, London [date and mode of acqusition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.Walters Collection",
    "date": "1390-1400 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.269",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "mirrors",
        "cases (containers)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.7,
            "height": 9.4,
            "depth": 0.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 13/16 × W: 3 11/16 × D: 5/16 in. (9.7 × 9.4 × 0.8 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Medieval European",
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        "3310"
    ]
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