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    "localId": "9093",
    "label": "Cup",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.571"
}

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    "id": "9093",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.571",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cup",
    "description": "Thesmar began his career designing textiles but was later employed as an enameler. Beginning in about 1890, Thesmar began to work in \"plique-à-jour,\" or openwork, enamel. By 1912, the year of his death, Thesmar was acclaimed as France's finest enameler. Because of their extreme fragility, few of his works survive.",
    "provenance": "Theodore Child, Paris, ca. 1887, by commission; Mary Cassatt, date and mode of acquisition unknown; William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1893 (perhaps 1891?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "about 1888",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.571",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "cups (drinking vessels)",
        "stands"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.571_Fnt_SL_T86.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.571_Fnt_SL_T86.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.571_Fnt_SL_T86.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6,
            "height": 8.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/8 × Diam: 3 7/16 in. (6 × 8.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "Decorated with red lettering in enamel around the bowl: Theodore Child",
    "med": "Translucent enamel, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3812"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "484",
        "2689"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "25b42459c4aeb6ac"
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