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{
    "localId": "148289",
    "label": "Dragon's Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "148289",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Dragon's Head",
    "description": "This exceedingly rare medieval carving, which recalls the more monumental carvings on Viking ship prows, may have been a finial for a diagonal member of a folding chair. The character of the head, the stylized acanthus leaves, and the foliage-spouting mask on the neck are characteristic of north European and Anglo-Norman Romanesque styles.",
    "date": "1100–1150",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.258",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60744162"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.258/1975.258_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.258/1975.258_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.258/1975.258_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Anglo-Norman?, Romanesque period, 12th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1975.258"
}

{
    "tec": "walrus ivory",
    "tombstone": "Dragon's Head, 1100–1150. Anglo-Norman?, Romanesque period, 12th century. Walrus ivory; overall: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Thomas P. Miller in memory of James J. Rorimer, 1975.258",
    "collection": "MED - Romanesque",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 35; Mentioned: p. 66, no. 48",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, William D. “Eleven Additions to the Medieval Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 3 (Mar/Apr 1979): 87–151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 94, figs. 17-18",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159622."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 68-71; Reproduced: p. 69"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.258",
    "creditline": "Gift of Thomas P. Miller in memory of James J. Rorimer",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:37:22.391000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.258/1975.258_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 148289,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Romanesque",
    "med": "walrus ivory",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.258/1975.258_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "ac24e0a56c0efdc2"
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