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    "localId": "77460",
    "label": "Pair of Vases (Vases à oreilles)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.22 (48.575, 48.576)"
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    "id": "77460",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.22 (48.575, 48.576)",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pair of Vases (Vases à oreilles)",
    "description": "The vase reserves are decorated with military scenes attributed to Jean-Louis Morin, and their dark blue (bleu du roi) grounds have been overlaid with \"vermiculé\" (worm-like) gilding.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Baron Schroeder Sale, Christie's, July 5, 1910, no. 44; Collection of Lord Chesham [remains to be verified]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 26 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1762",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.22 (48.575, 48.576)",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vases"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls;  [Date] Letter in blue: j (1762);  [Modeler's Mark] In blue: Méraud",
        "Charles-Louis juene;  [Decorator's Mark] In blue: M (Morin",
        "Jean Louis)"
    ],
    "med": "soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2977",
        "15565",
        "1915",
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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