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    "localId": "31653",
    "label": "Casket with Images of Cupids",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.298"
}

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    "id": "31653",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.298",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Casket with Images of Cupids",
    "description": "This finely carved ivory casket is decorated with curly-haired \"erotes\" (cupids) in the guise of warriors, dancers, and musicians.  The lid shows two in equestrian combat while the trapezoidal panel in front shows a group of four \"erotes\" and a centaur dancing and playing musical instruments.  The rectangular plaque on the casket's front features an \"eros\" playing a harp on a stand, a chariot drawn by panthers, and two other \"erotes\" playing musical instruments.",
    "provenance": "Bought in Italy; Edward Joseph, London, ca. 1888, by purchase; Sale, Christie's, London, May 6, 1890, no. 1003 and February 1894, no. 357; Isaac Falcke, London, 1894, by purchase; Sale, Christie's, London, April 19, 1910, no. 166; Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1910, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.298",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "coffins"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 7,
    "pageCount": 7,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.6,
            "height": 18.5,
            "depth": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 15/16 x W: 7 5/16 x D: 5 5/16 in. (12.6 x 18.5 x 13.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "dynasty": "Macedonian Dynasty",
    "med": "bone and ivory on wood",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358",
        "215",
        "170",
        "3316"
    ]
}

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