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    "localId": "31216",
    "label": "Watch with onyx plaques and brilliants",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.82"
}

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    "id": "31216",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.82",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with onyx plaques and brilliants",
    "description": "This unusual watch has a circular case of silver, overlaid with gold, pierced and set with plaques of onyx and studded with brilliants. The dial is enamel. The back plate is engraved \"I Joly a Paris.\"",
    "provenance": "Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870);  Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 34);  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1725",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.82",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Engraved on backplate: I Joly a Paris",
    "med": "silver, gold, onyx, brilliants",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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