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{
    "localId": "39607",
    "label": "Port-Flask with Powder Flask and Bullet-and-Cartridge Pouch",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.558"
}

{
    "id": "39607",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.558",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Port-Flask with Powder Flask and Bullet-and-Cartridge Pouch",
    "description": "This \"port-flask\" is from a series made for members of the bodyguard of the lectors of Saxony Christian II (reigned 1591/1601-11) or Johann Georg I (reigned 1611-56) who used wheel-lock carbines. The relief depicts a guard member carrying a ceremonial halberd.",
    "provenance": "Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 23;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1610",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.558",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "powder flasks"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.558_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.558_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_51.558_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 39,
            "height": 21
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "15 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (39 x 21 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "leather, ebony, wood, iron",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR",
        "ARM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_51.558_NF_3739-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "20b69d4dcffe8920"
}