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{
    "localId": "37222",
    "label": "Watch with Pair Case",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.210"
}

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    "id": "37222",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.210",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Pair Case",
    "description": "Charles Cabrier II was the most prominent member of the Cabrier family of watchmakers, Huguenots who fled France for London. He was apprenticed in 1726 and was a master watchmaker from 1757-1772. The pair case is made of bloodstone (green jasper flecked with red).",
    "provenance": "Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870);  Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 37);  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1893, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1780",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.210",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "cases"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.210_Fnt_NG_1101.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.210_Fnt_NG_1101.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Name] Engraved on backplate and cover: Char. Cabrier London",
        "2300; [Stamp] W. R."
    ],
    "med": "gold, green jasper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7866"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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