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{
    "localId": "82341",
    "label": "Tea Glass Holder",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.731.1"
}

{
    "id": "82341",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.731.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tea Glass Holder",
    "description": "The tea glass holder (podstakannik) is decorated with white and foil-backed red and blue enamel in geometric patterns.  Circumscribing the the holder in Church Slavonic in pierced work is the name of Princess Nadyejda Beloselsky-Belozersky (1847-1920), the sister of Russia's war hero General Mikhail D. Skobelev (1843-1882). Opposite the handle on the rim of the cup is a red enameled crown.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Sotheby's, Munich, December 8, 1999; purchased by Jean M. Riddell (throuh Leo Kaplan as agent), Washington, D.C., February 11, 2000; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2010.",
    "date": "1876",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.731.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "teacups (drinking vessels)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.731.1_Fnt_DD_T14.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.731.1_Fnt_DD_T14.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.731.1_Fnt_DD_T14.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.8,
            "height": 11,
            "depth": 7.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/4 x W: 4 5/16 x D: 2 15/16 in. (10.8 x 11 x 7.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Marks] On base in Cyrillic: POvchinnikov with Imperial warant",
        "VS over 1876 (for Viktor Savinkov",
        "Moscow assay master",
        "active 1855-1888); [Symbols] 91",
        "St. George; [Inscription] On holder in Old Slavonic: Nadezhaev losp iska bedozephkaia"
    ],
    "med": "silver gilding, champlevé and translucent enamel, glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3889"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "323bf8472e75e828"
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