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{
    "localId": "6143",
    "label": "Standing-Cup with Cover",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.806"
}

{
    "id": "6143",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.806",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Standing-Cup with Cover",
    "description": "This piece has designs of birds and foliage in niello on the sides of the hexagonal cup.  Inside is gilt, with the figure of a shrimp \"en plein\" air.  When the drinker is finished, a shrimp stares at him from inside the cup.  The finial of the cover is designed as a nude child.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 17th century (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.806",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "cups (drinking vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H:10 9/16 in. (26.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Russian",
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": "[Maker's Mark] Stamped on base and upper rim with swan in oval.",
    "dynasty": "House of Romanov",
    "med": "silver, parcel gilt, niello",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_57.806_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1dcadbc6ccc79d70"
}