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    "localId": "35230",
    "label": "Cup",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.572"
}

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    "id": "35230",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.572",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cup",
    "description": "Thesmar began his career designing textiles but was later employed as an enameler. Beginning in about 1887, Thesmar began to work in \"plique-à-jour,\" or openwork, enamel. By 1912, the year of his death, Thesmar was acclaimed as France's finest enameler. Because of their extreme fragility, few of his works survive.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, by commission (likely via George A. Lucas, Paris), ca. 1887; Henry Walters, 1894, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1887-1888",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.572",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "cups (drinking vessels)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.4,
            "height": 9.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/4 × Diam: 3 11/16 in. (4.4 × 9.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] TF (conjoined) Decorated with red lettering in enamel around the bowl: WTWALTERS",
    "med": "Translucent enamel, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3812"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2689"
    ]
}

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