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    "localId": "6554",
    "label": "Mirror Case with Lovers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.97"
}

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    "id": "6554",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.97",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mirror Case with Lovers",
    "description": "A young gentleman wearing a sword and a lady with a pet squirrel meet in the woods, indicated by trees in the background. The scene is set within a frame of nine lobes, whose spandrels are filled with bearded masks. Two of the four crouching-monster corner terminals have been damaged by burial. There are losses on the back as well, and a new hole is drilled at the top.The lobed frame is usually considered a sign of a date after the mid-century, but the figure style suggests that this may be an early use of the mask frame.",
    "provenance": "[Said to have been disinterred by an artillery shell in northern France between 1914 and 1918]; Henri Daguerre, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 14th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.97",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "mirrors",
        "cases (containers)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.5,
            "height": 9.5,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/4 x W: 3 3/4 x D: 3/16 in. (9.5 x 9.5 x 0.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Medieval European",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory",
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        "6229"
    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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