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    "localId": "3528",
    "label": "Shaving Soap Dish (Boîte à savonette)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.700"
}

{
    "id": "3528",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.700",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Shaving Soap Dish (Boîte à savonette)",
    "description": "The painted decoration of garlands and urns over a white ground is identical to that found on the service commissioned by Louis XV's mistress, the comtesse du Barry, in 1770.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1772",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.700",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "soap boxes"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.700_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.700_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 3/4 in. (12 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Factory Mark] Almost illegible: Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: T (1772)",
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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}