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    "core": {
        "objectID": 57391,
        "objectNumber": "53.179",
        "primaryTitle": "Powder Box",
        "objectName": "box",
        "dated": "1738 or 1739",
        "classification": "Silver",
        "department": "European Sculpture and Dec Arts",
        "medium": "silver",
        "dimensions": "Overall: 4 × 5 inches (10.2 × 12.7 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": "Inscribed, engraved, on lid of box: [The coats of arms of the Dukes of Cadaval and Lorraine]",
        "markings": "Marked, maker's mark, struck on underside of box, not legible\r\nMarked, warden's mark for 1738-39, struck on underside of lid and on underside of box: Y\r\nMarked, charge mark for 1738-44, struck on underside of lid and on underside of box: [crowned A]\r\nMarked, discharge mark for 1733(?)-75, struck on applied molding, on lid and on box: [walking cow]"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Etienne Pollet",
            "role": "Maker",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, active 1715 - 1751"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Etienne Pollet, Powder Box, 1738 or 1739, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection of Early French Silver Fund, 53.179."
        }
    ],
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        {
            "name": "French",
            "type": "styles and periods"
        },
        {
            "name": "silver",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "coats of arms",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "box (container)",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "circular",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "Paris",
            "type": "creation"
        }
    ],
    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/57391"
    }
}