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    "localId": "5576",
    "label": "Ewer Basin with Female Bust",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1322"
}

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    "id": "5576",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1322",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ewer Basin with Female Bust",
    "description": "The composition, with a stylized profile of a beautiful woman (Bella Donna) on the central boss and a six-part band of vegetal and geometric ornamentation, is typical of earthenware produced in the maiolica (earthenware with a tin glaze) workshops of Deruta during the early 16th century. There are records of basins, together with their ewers (vase-shaped pitchers), given as special toiletry items to young women. This vessel with an idealized female portrait admiring a plant with flowers at center may have served as such a piece. For additional images of beautiful women on maiolica ware, see: 48.1351; 48.1358; 48.1510; 48.1741.For more on earthenware and maiolica see: 48.1320; 48.1336.",
    "provenance": "Charles Mannheim Collection (?); Seligmann, NY (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1510-1530 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1322",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "basins (vessels)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.6,
            "height": 31.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/16 x Diam: 12 5/16 in. (3.6 x 31.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Italian Renaissance",
    "med": "earthenware with tin glaze (maiolica) and luster decoration",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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