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    "localId": "91085",
    "label": "Crossbow Bolt Mounted in a Fan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.551.10"
}

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    "id": "91085",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.551.10",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Crossbow Bolt Mounted in a Fan",
    "description": "A bolt is a missile-like object, similar to an arrow but used with a crossbow. It consists of a stout wooden shaft with a conical or pyramidal metal head; leather or wooden vanes are fitted on the end of the shaft to steady the bolt's flight.",
    "provenance": "Gimbel, Berlin, 1904 [no. 905]; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 20, 1924, no. 270; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1400-1700",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.551.10",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "bolts (arrows)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.551_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Average L: 15 3/16 in. (38.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "wood, iron or steel, copper alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ARM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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