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{
    "localId": "26588",
    "label": "Intaglio with Helios Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1157"
}

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    "id": "26588",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1157",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Helios Set in a Ring",
    "description": "This intaglio shows Helios, the sun god, wearing a radiate crown and a cloak fastened at his neck. He holds a patera in his right hand and a whip in his left. This gem belonged to Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel (1585-1646), one of the greatest collectors of antiquities in England and a friend and patron of Sir Peter Paul Rubens. The gem is encased in a 17th-century gold and enamelled mount.",
    "provenance": "Thomas Howard, fourteenth/twenty-first Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, 1638, by purchase [William Petty as agent] [Arundel Collection A, no. 48]; Aletheia Talbot Howard, Arundel House, London, 1646, by bequest; Henry Frederick Howard, fifteenth/twenty-second Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, by 1652, by gift; Henry Howard, sixth Duke of Norfolk, Arundel House, London, 1652, by bequest; Jane Bickerton Howard, Arundel House, London, 1684, by bequest; Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, by 1690, by purchase; Mary Mordant, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1697, by bequest; John Germain, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1705, by bequest; Elizabeth Germain, Knole House, Kent, 1718, by bequest; Mary Beauclerk Spencer, 1762, by gift; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, ca. 1765, by gift [Marlborough no. 266]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 41, lot 266; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 47, lot 266; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "2nd century CE (Middle Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1157",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "finger rings",
        "intaglios"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 2,
            "depth": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13/16 × W: 13/16 × D: 9/16 in. (2 × 2 × 1.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "rutilated quartz; mount: gold, enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
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        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "309",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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