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{
    "localId": "38366",
    "label": "Pastille Burner",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.186"
}

{
    "id": "38366",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.186",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pastille Burner",
    "description": "A pastille was a category of scent that was used to perfume the air and a bastille burner was used to heat it up to disperse the pleasing smell to offset an unpleasant one. Pressed and enamelled",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Musuem, 1931.",
    "date": "1500s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.186",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "burners"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_44.186_Fnt_NG_2624.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_44.186_Fnt_NG_2624.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.5,
            "height": 19.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/8 x W: 7 11/16 in. (3.5 x 19.5 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "enamel over copper (?)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6242"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_44.186_Fnt_NG_2624.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e46daf5d15f84257"
}