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    "localId": "3195",
    "label": "Snuffbox with Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.216"
}

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    "id": "3195",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.216",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Snuffbox with Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette",
    "description": "The snuffbox is of maple root rimmed and lined with tortoiseshell. Beneath the clear glass cover is an ivory relief applied to a blue glass ground backed with silver foil tooled in a basketwork design. The relief shows overlapping profile busts of Louis XVI and his queen, Marie-Antoinette. The monarch wears a collar ornamented with fleurs-de-lys and the Order of the Golden Fleece; a diadem and a double strand of pearls adorn the queen. The composition is reminiscent of a design by C. H. Küchler on the obverse of a silver medal of 1793 commemorating the end of the French monarchy.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1820",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.216",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "snuffboxes"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.216_Fnt_BW_1132.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.7,
            "height": 2.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 3 7/16 × D: 1 1/8 in. (8.7 × 2.8 cm)"
}

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    "med": "maple root with ivory set in blue glass, silver foil, tortoiseshell",
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    ],
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    ],
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}

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