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    "core": {
        "objectID": 48627,
        "objectNumber": "53.187",
        "primaryTitle": "Root Box",
        "objectName": "root box",
        "dated": "1738/1739",
        "classification": "Silver",
        "department": "European Sculpture and Dec Arts",
        "medium": "silver",
        "dimensions": "Overall: 3 3/8 × 5 3/4 × 3 1/4 inches (8.6 × 14.6 × 8.3 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund ",
        "provenance": "ca. 1738, probably commissioned by Jaime de Mello, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, or by Louis of Lorraine, prince de Lambesc;\r\nMay 1739, Henriette-Julie-Gabrielle de Lorraine, Duchesse de Cadaval [1724-1761];\r\nby descent to the family of the Dukes of Cadaval (Lisbon, Portugal);\r\n1931, sold by 9th Duke of Cadaval;\r\n1931, acquired by (Jacques Helft, Paris, France);\r\n1952, Elizabeth and Harvey Firestone, Jr.;\r\n1953-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": "Mark, on inside of lid\r\nMark, on underside of base: 282N\r\nMarks, on underside of base: [various marks including crowned Y]\r\nMark, on underside of base: 53.187\r\nMark, on underside of base, on rim: LMF"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Sebastien Igonet",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, active 1725 - 1766 or later"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Sebastien Igonet, Root Box, 1738/1739, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 53.187."
        }
    ],
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            "width": 3310,
            "height": 2758,
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    },
    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "gadrooning",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "perfume",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "silver",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "box (container)",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "Paris",
            "type": "creation"
        },
        {
            "name": "pomegranate",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "roots (plant components)",
            "type": "subject"
        }
    ],
    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/48627"
    }
}