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{
    "localId": "132045",
    "label": "Casket",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "132045",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Casket",
    "description": "This casket is one of only a few of its kind to survive in such a fine state of preservation. A variety of such caskets were used in wealthy homes to store jewelry, seals, mirrors, and combs. A keyhole lock is provided for security. Caskets like this were often highly decorated and given to women as gifts.",
    "date": "late 1300s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.600",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60754192"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.600/1954.600_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.600/1954.600_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.600/1954.600_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 23.2 x 41.3 x 18.3 cm (9 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Siena(?)"
    ],
    "accession": "1954.6"
}

{
    "tec": "painted and gilded gesso on wood",
    "tombstone": "Casket, late 1300s. Italy, Siena(?). Painted and gilded gesso on wood; overall: 23.2 x 41.3 x 18.3 cm (9 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1954.600",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 55",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n79"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 55",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n79"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 69",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n89"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Miller, Scott. “Embriachi Boxes and the Materialities of Fifteenth-Century Courts.” <em>Gesta </em>65, n. 1 (Spring 2026): 65-96.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 72; Reproduced: p. 69"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.600",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:48:24.065000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.600/1954.600_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 132045,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "painted and gilded gesso on wood",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.600/1954.600_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c8443270ef6424ba"
}