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{
    "localId": "5322",
    "label": "Casket of assembled plaques",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.34"
}

{
    "id": "5322",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.34",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Casket of assembled plaques",
    "description": "This casket appears to be have been assembled from various unrelated, solid cast plaques with both mythological and christian subjects. the assemblage may have taken place in the 1800s when there was a growing market for such personal items from the Renaissance.",
    "provenance": "Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1500-1550 (later assemblage) (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.34",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "caskets (personal gear)",
        "inkstand"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.34_Back_BW_H78.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.34_Back_BW_H78.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.34_Back_BW_H78.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14,
            "height": 23.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (14 x 23.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "Yellow bronze/blacklacquer/brown patina",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2199"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_54.34_Right_BW_H78.jpg",
    "mediaId": "fd186fec692f8487"
}