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    "localId": "4526",
    "label": "Urn Clock",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.248"
}

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    "id": "4526",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.248",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Urn Clock",
    "description": "A serpent indicates with its tongue the hours and minutes on the bands revolving around the urn.Clockmaker Jean-André Le Paute began to work for Louis XV in 1751 and eventually made clocks for a number of royal châteaux.This clock demonstrates how Sèvres porcelain plaques were mounted in various furniture forms during the 1770s and 80s. The porcelains bear the date-letter for 1774.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1774",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.248",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "clocks"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_58.248_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 44.5,
            "height": 24
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "17 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. (44.5 x 24 cm)"
}

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    "med": "ormolu, soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15609"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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