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    "localId": "77480",
    "label": "Statuettes of Venus and Mercury",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.30 (48.977, 48.978)"
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    "id": "77480",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.30 (48.977, 48.978)",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Statuettes of Venus and Mercury",
    "description": "Around 1751, Vincennes-Sèvres began to manufacture unglazed porcelain (or \"biscuit\") figurines. These biscuit figurines were based on Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's marble statues of Venus and Mercury. The marble statues were presented by Pigalle to Frederick II, King of Prussia, in 1750.",
    "provenance": "48.977: E. F. Bonaventure [dealer], New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase [for receipt see WAM Archives, Vertical File, Chronologic: 1909]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.48.978: E. F. Bonaventure, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1770",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.30 (48.977, 48.978)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "48.977: 9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm);48.978: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)"
}

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    "med": "soft-paste porcelain",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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