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    "localId": "33215",
    "label": "Medallion with the Dipping of Achilles",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1975"
}

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    "id": "33215",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1975",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Medallion with the Dipping of Achilles",
    "description": "Thetis holds Achilles by the heel as she dippes him into a large vase.  A women holding two torches looks on. The symbol of a ram's head is attached to a tree.",
    "provenance": "Miss Elisabeth Gilman, before 1948 [mode of acquisition unknown]; The Walters Art Museum, March 1948, by gift.",
    "date": "late 18th century (Neoclassical)",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Maker's mark] Wedgwood",
    "med": "jasperware",
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    ],
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