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    "localId": "4222",
    "label": "Watch with Apollo and Minerva Striking Bells",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.55"
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    "id": "4222",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.55",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Apollo and Minerva Striking Bells",
    "description": "The appliqué figures strike the bells with their movable arms. The Swiss case encloses a French movement.",
    "provenance": "Matthew P. McCullough Collection, Chicago [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Christie's, New York (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1810",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.55",
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    "language": "en",
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        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] On escapement: Castre à Toulouse No. 1329[Inscription] Balance cock is pierced and engraved: PHILIPPE  BOREL",
    "med": "gold, enamel",
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