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    "localId": "2800",
    "label": "Necklace with Butterfly Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.386"
}

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    "id": "2800",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.386",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Necklace with Butterfly Pendant",
    "description": "Elaborate diadems or necklaces featuring centerpieces of inlaid stones, pendants, and beaded chains go back to 3rd- and 2nd-century Greek jewelry. This necklace was found on the neck of the deceased; as the symbol of the soul, the butterfly was an appropriate motif for a burial gift.",
    "provenance": "[Discovered in 1891, in a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine]; Postnikov, Moscow, by purchase [from a local dealer in Ukraine]; Spinks, London, by purchase [around the turn of the century]; Peter Mavrogordato, 1913, by purchase [on the art market]; Collection of F. L. van Gans?, Frankfurt, 1913-1920, by purchase; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague  [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 B]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 2nd-1st century BC (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.386",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "necklaces",
        "pendants"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.386_Fnt_TR_C79III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.386_Fnt_TR_C79III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.386_Fnt_TR_C79III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.5,
            "height": 33,
            "depth": 1.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 15/16 x 13 x 1/2 in. (7.5 x 33 x 1.3 cm);12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "gold, amethyst, chalcedony, emerald, rock crystal, pearl, and colored glass",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "2237",
        "3673"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_57.386_DD_AT19_3570_16-tms.jpg",
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