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    "localId": "23948",
    "label": "Watch with Scenes of Europa and the Bull and a Satyr and Sleeping Nymph",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.127"
}

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    "id": "23948",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.127",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Scenes of Europa and the Bull and a Satyr and Sleeping Nymph",
    "description": "In the 1600s watches with painted enamel covers that depicted either religious or well-known amorous stories from antiquity were popular as much for personal ornamentation as for telling time.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1690",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.127",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watches"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.6,
            "height": 6.4,
            "depth": 4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Approx H: 3 × W: 2 1/2 × D: 1 9/16 in. (7.62 × 6.35 × 4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] On back of case: P. Huaud fecit; [Inscription] On movement: S Charleson",
        "London",
        "1556 (?)"
    ],
    "med": "gold and enamels",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2404",
        "34355"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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