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{
    "localId": "77431",
    "label": "Pair of Salt Cellars with the Story of Actaeon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)"
}

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    "id": "77431",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pair of Salt Cellars with the Story of Actaeon",
    "description": "This pair of salt cellars is decorated with the popular tale of Actaeon from \"The Metamorphoses\" by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17). Actaeon, a young hunter, accidentally sees the goddess Diana bathing. She notices the young hunter and, in a rage, transforms him into a stag. Actaeon's hunting dogs do not recognize him and kill him. The moral of this story was that it is possible to sin unintentionally.",
    "provenance": "Frederic Spitzer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 17, 1893, lot 519-20; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1555",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.11 (44.339, 44.340)",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "saltcellars"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.339-340_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.2,
            "height": 13.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/4 x W: 5 1/4 in. (8.2 x 13.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5948"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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