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{
    "localId": "37491",
    "label": "One of a Pair of Vases (Vase chinois; vase à pied de globe)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.640"
}

{
    "id": "37491",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.640",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "One of a Pair of Vases (Vase chinois; vase à pied de globe)",
    "description": "The white ground of this vase is almost entirely covered with tooled gilding against dark blue. The central panel depicts putti bearing military arms.",
    "provenance": "King Louis XVI, Château of Saint Cloud; Collection of the Marchioness of Conyngham [according to Hodgkins] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 48 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1774",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.640",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "vases",
        "covers"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_48.640_Back_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: H: 19 in. (48.2 cm) / Vase without lid: H: 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm) / Lid only: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Factory Mark] In cover: Intertwined Lls; [Date] Letter: V (1774); [Decorator's Mark] B (Boulanger",
        "Jean-Pierre père [active 1754-1784])"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": 36057,
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916",
        "2977",
        "3756"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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