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        "objectNumber": "53.193.4",
        "primaryTitle": "Backplate for the Joust of War with exploding shields (Geshifttartschen-Rennen)",
        "objectName": "backplate",
        "dated": "ca. 1480",
        "classification": "Arms and Armor",
        "department": "European Sculpture and Dec Arts",
        "medium": "steel, copper alloy, leather",
        "dimensions": "Overall (Backplate): 20 13/16 × 14 × 7 1/2 inches (52.9 × 35.6 × 19.1 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Gift of William Randolph Hearst Foundation ",
        "provenance": "By 1869, Princes Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Schloss Sigmaringen (Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany);\r\n1929, sold to (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc.) (New York, New York, USA);\r\n1930, sold to William Randolph Hearst (Los Angeles, California, USA);\r\n1951, bequeathed to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA);\r\n1953–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)\r\nWilliam Randolph Hearst Foundation (by 1951);\r\nDetroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": "Stamped on right shoulder: maker’s mark of Lorenz Helmschmid [a helm for the Joust of Peace, crested with a cross]\r\n\r\nStamped on the right shoulder: inspection mark of Augsburg armorers’ guild [a fir cone upon a pedestal]\r\n"
    },
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            "displayName": "Lorenz Helmschmid",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "German",
            "bio": "German, active 1467 - 1515/16"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
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            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
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            "name": "edging and surfacing patterns",
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            "name": "Gothic (Medieval)",
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            "name": "leather",
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        {
            "name": "heart (motif)",
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        {
            "name": "Rennzeug",
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