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    "localId": "8196",
    "label": "Comb with Lady Love and a Hunting Scene",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.78"
}

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    "id": "8196",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.78",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Comb with Lady Love and a Hunting Scene",
    "description": "The comb is carved on either side in two sunken panels between the teeth; about three-quarters of each scene is preserved. On one side Lady Love sits enthroned, presenting mantled helms to kneeling knights. The knight on her right wears a steel cap and coif, a jupon with a dagged edge (brigandine (?)) and hose. The second knight, who is standing, is helmetless and holds a spear and shield; the third, also standing, wears a cloth hood with a dagged edge.On the reverse is a hunting scene with two men wearing hunting hats with turned-up brims. In a setting defined by two stylized trees, the first figure spears a boar emerging from a rocky landscape; the second figure spears a missing animal. Traces of gilding and color remain. The comb is broken nearly in half, and all its smaller teeth are missing.Several combs in a similar style exist.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Victor Martin Le Roy (1842-1918), Neuilly-sur-Seine. Acquired by Léon Gruel, Paris, ca. 1924 (?); purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1400 (early Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.78",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "fragments",
        "combs (grooming tools)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.78_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.78_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9,
            "height": 9.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 9/16 x W: 3 11/16 in. (9 x 9.3 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "ivory, traces of gilding and polychromy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3021"
    ]
}

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