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    "localId": "4739",
    "label": "Medallion of Louis XVI",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1004"
}

{
    "id": "4739",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1004",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Medallion of Louis XVI",
    "description": "This image of the king, who was also the proprietor of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory, was modeled by Louis-Simon Boizet, director of sculpture at the factory.",
    "provenance": "E. F. Bonaventure, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1774",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1004",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "medallions"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.1004_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.1004_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.1004_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Mark] Inscribed on back",
        "in ink: Louis seize donné par Mr le Marechal de Mouy (?) à son ami Mr de Camerlieve (?) evêque d'Apt"
    ],
    "med": "hard paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3855",
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "ba8bbd67492c64db"
}