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{
    "localId": "9997",
    "label": "\"\"Antique\"\" Cameo with Portrait of the Roman Emperor Vespasian",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.237"
}

{
    "id": "9997",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.237",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "\"\"Antique\"\" Cameo with Portrait of the Roman Emperor Vespasian",
    "description": "The Roman emperors were popular subjects for cameos (small relief carvings) in antiquity, and this cameo of Vespasian (AD 9-79) imitates that tradition. Cameos of the 16th and 17th centuries imitating Roman carving were often offered to collectors as Roman artifacts.   Onyx was favored for cameos because its narrow veins of brown and white color can be carved to set off a white form against a brown background.",
    "provenance": "C.T. Hawkins [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles Newton-Robinson Sale, London, June 22, 1909, no. 114; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1600-1650 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.237",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "gems",
        "cameos",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.237_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.237_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.237_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.8,
            "height": 7.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 7/16 x W: 2 13/16 in. (8.8 x 7.1 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "onyx, gilded copper alloy mount",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994",
        "3360"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_42.237_DD_T15.jpg",
    "mediaId": "833f9e541de9f619"
}