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{
    "localId": "3636",
    "label": "Two-faced Finial",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1635"
}

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    "id": "3636",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1635",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Two-faced Finial",
    "description": "Two gold sheets worked in repoussé over the same mould to form two female heads and necks, then placed back to back, twisted and smooth wire added around the base, with two tiny twisted filigree spiral earrings that work for either face added to the sides.A finial such as this probably served as one of the end decorations for spiral earrings of a type not represented at the Walters.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5132]; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.",
    "date": "4th-3rd century BC (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1635",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "earrings (jewelry)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1635_Rt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.1635_Rt_BW_C79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11/16 in. (1.75 cm)"
}

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    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
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