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{
    "localId": "6776",
    "label": "Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with a Lion's Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.5"
}

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    "id": "6776",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.5",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with a Lion's Head",
    "description": "Lions are often depicted on ceiling tiles of this kind, but the stylized frontal view of the animal's head here is quite unusual and was probably influenced by similar images on glazed ceramic dishes. The piece once belonged to the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). Nothing is known about its earlier provenance. Most comparable examples of known origin come from the town of Paterna, evidently the principal center of socarrat production.",
    "provenance": "William R. Hearst, San Simeon, California, ca. 1930, by purchase; Hearst estate, 1951, by bequest, inv. 2597, lot s/b 569, no. 28; Walters Art Museum, 1958, by purchase.",
    "date": "1490-1550 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.2106.5",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramics",
        "ceiling tiles",
        "soccarat"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2106.5_Fnt_BW_H59.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2106.5_Fnt_BW_H59.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_48.2106.5_Fnt_BW_H59.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.3,
            "height": 43.5,
            "depth": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13 7/8 x W: 17 1/8 x D: 1 in. (35.3 x 43.5 x 2.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Valencian",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "earthenware with glaze and black paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6242"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1957"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "202951ceaecceafc"
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