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{
    "localId": "31897",
    "label": "Watch with Double Case depicting Adonis and Venus",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.37"
}

{
    "id": "31897",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.37",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Double Case depicting Adonis and Venus",
    "description": "This English watch was likely made for the Dutch market.",
    "provenance": "William T. or, more likely, Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1739",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.37",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "cases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_58.37_Back_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_58.37_Back_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_58.37_Back_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Maker’s mark] engraved on dial of watch: HALLI / LONDON; [Maker’s mark] engraved on back plate of watch: C Hallifax / London 11918; [Case maker’s mark?] engraved on interior back of watch case: IW; [English Hallmarks] stamped on interior back of watch case:  [lion passant] [English metal fineness mark] / [crowned leopard head] [London assay mark] / d [year mark for 1739]; scratched onto inside of bezel of the inner pair case: 712",
    "med": "gold, gilt metal, green shagreen, glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4958"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2227"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_58.37_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "83d32c9e09866fef"
}