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{
    "localId": "31190",
    "label": "Crystal Reliquary",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.8"
}

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    "id": "31190",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.8",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Crystal Reliquary",
    "description": "This barrel-shaped reliquary is formed of a large, cylindrical piece of crystal bored down the middle to create a narrow compartment for a relic. The rock crystal makes this a type of monstrance (display reliquary) that presents the relic for veneration visibly rather than keeping it hidden from view as in an enamel, church-shaped shrine.",
    "provenance": "Tycon and Smith, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1200 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.8",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "reliquaries"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_53.8_Back_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_53.8_Back_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_53.8_Back_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.5,
            "height": 16.8,
            "depth": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H at top of center finial: 5 11/16 x W: 6 5/8 x D: 3 3/4 in. (14.5 x 16.8 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Rhenish",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "gilded copper, rock crystal",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5094"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2115",
        "2691"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_53.8_Fnt_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ff0b772a99e151fd"
}