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    "localId": "6819",
    "label": "Statuette with Cupid and Psyche",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.981"
}

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    "id": "6819",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.981",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Statuette with Cupid and Psyche",
    "description": "This is after the Roman copy of a Hellenistic group of Eros and Psyche, in Rome at the Capitoline Museum.  It depicts the myth of Psyche, a beautiful mortal who is sent away from her family but is rescued by Cupid, who falls in love with her and makes Psyche his wife.  It is a tumoltuous love story symbolizing the difficulty of the union of the Soul (Psyche) and Love (Cupid or Eros).",
    "provenance": "E. F. Bonaventure, New York, 1909 (?), Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Musuem, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1790",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.981",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "statuary groups"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.981_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.981_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.981_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] La Riche",
        "Sèvres"
    ],
    "med": "porcelain biscuit",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916",
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_48.981_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c82ed758a6bd0d69"
}