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{
    "localId": "9570",
    "label": "Censer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.699"
}

{
    "id": "9570",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.699",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Censer",
    "description": "This censer made in Germany is typical of the style popular in western Europe at the end of the fifteenth century. The intersecting raised bands mimic the complex vaulting systems used in late Gothic churches, and the openwork areas are reminiscent of the tracery found in the windows of these buildings.",
    "provenance": "Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, no. 347; Charles Borradaile, Brighton, by purchase; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase.",
    "date": "1498 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.699",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "incense burners"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.699_VwB_DD_T07.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.699_VwB_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.699_VwB_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H with chain: 28 3/4 in. (73 cm); Body H: 10 x Diam: 4 9/16 in. (25.4 x 11.6 cm); Hanger H: 2 11/16 x Diam: 3 1/4 in. (6.8 x 8.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "German",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] On interior: 1498",
    "med": "gilded silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1967",
        "666",
        "2576",
        "3310"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.699_VwA_DD_T07.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a4358bf8d866d211"
}