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    "localId": "1432",
    "label": "Diptych with Scenes of Christ's Life and Passion",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.272"
}

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    "id": "1432",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.272",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Diptych with Scenes of Christ's Life and Passion",
    "description": "This diptych consists of three tiers in which the scenes are beneath arcades of five trefoil arches. The scenes, reading from the top left, include: Annunciation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Kiss of Judas, Death of Judas, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost.The diptych was once supplied with a stand, attached through square holes pierced in the center arch of the two lower arcades. These are now plugged with ivory. There is an incised outline of the stand on the back and six V-shaped slots are filed into the back of each leaf.",
    "provenance": "John Malcolm of Poltalloch Collection, County Argyll, Scotland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; [exhibited at Manchester, 1857]; [exhibited at Leeds, 1868]; Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1879 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Baron Malcolm of Poltalloch [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Malcolm Sale, London, May 1, 1913, lot 21; Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "4th quarter 14th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.272",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "diptychs"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.7,
            "height": 11.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Each panel H: 7 3/4 x W: 4 7/16 in. (19.7 x 11.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Medieval European",
    "style": "Gothic",
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        "2752",
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    ]
}

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