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    "localId": "165167",
    "label": "Filigree Disk Brooch with Central Boss",
    "core": "obj",
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{
    "id": "165167",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Filigree Disk Brooch with Central Boss",
    "date": "late 600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.163",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60758005"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Jewelry"
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.163/2007.163_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.163/2007.163_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4.2 x 4.3 x 1.8 cm (1 5/8 x 1 11/16 x 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Frankish, late Merovingian"
    ],
    "accession": "2007.163"
}

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    "tec": "gilt silver, copper alloy, glass, almandine",
    "tombstone": "Filigree Disk Brooch with Central Boss, late 600s. Frankish, late Merovingian. Gilt silver, copper alloy, glass, almandine; overall: 4.2 x 4.3 x 1.8 cm (1 5/8 x 1 11/16 x 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 2007.163",
    "collection": "MED - Migration Period",
    "didYouKnow": "This brooch is made out of gilt-silver, meaning silver that is covered by gold.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. \"Movable Pieces.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 50, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 24-25.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 24",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2010-04/page/n23/mode/2up"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.163",
    "creditline": "Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:33:36.083000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.163/2007.163_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 165167,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Migration Period",
    "med": "gilt silver, copper alloy, glass, almandine",
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    "image_url": null
}

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