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{
    "localId": "5239",
    "label": "Flower Pot (Vase hollandois)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.628"
}

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    "id": "5239",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.628",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Flower Pot (Vase hollandois)",
    "description": "This type of pot was used for growing plants and bulbs, which were watered through the holes on the base.  This example is decorated with a dark blue ground with circular and rectangular reserves of flowers and harbor scenes painted by Jean-Louis Morin (1754-1787).",
    "provenance": "E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, [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": "ca. 1779",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.628",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "vases"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.628_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_48.628_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.5,
            "height": 17.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 7/8 x W: 6 7/8 in. (17.46 x 17.46 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Factory Mark] Intertwined Lls; [Gilder's Mark] B (Boulanger",
        "1754 - 84)"
    ],
    "med": "soft paste porcelain",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1916",
        "1915",
        "3756"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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