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{
    "localId": "33914",
    "label": "Tankard",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.800"
}

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    "id": "33914",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.800",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tankard",
    "description": "Tankards were used for drinking kivas (beer).  The form of this vessel with its ball feet and thumb-piece originated in western Europe during the 17th century.  On the lid is the bust of Count Burkhard Münnich, the Russian commander during a war in the Crimea (1736-1739).  This piece is also decorated with a design of landscapes and birds.",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), St. Petersburg and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1737 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.800",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "tankards"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.800_Prof_TR_T06.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.800_Prof_TR_T06.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.800_Prof_TR_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/2 in. (19 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Baroque",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Several marks on bottom including one with date of 1737 and initials L B or C R.",
    "med": "silver, silver-gilt",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6214"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "69"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.800_Det_DD_T06.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8d1e90643d44348e"
}