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    "localId": "94980",
    "label": "Marriage Chest",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "94980",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Marriage Chest",
    "description": "Elaborately carved chests were given by husbands to their wives on the occasion of the wedding. Inside the home, such chests were used for the storage of clothing and were elaborately painted and gilded. This chest is an example of a type produced in Barcelona from the late 1400s onward.",
    "date": "c. 1500",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.535",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60740283"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.535/1915.535_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.535/1915.535_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 71.8 x 127 x 55.9 cm (28 1/4 x 50 x 22 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona(?), early 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.535"
}

{
    "tec": "wood with painting and gilding",
    "tombstone": "Marriage Chest, c. 1500. Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona(?), early 16th century. Wood with painting and gilding; overall: 71.8 x 127 x 55.9 cm (28 1/4 x 50 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1915.535",
    "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. 71",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n94"
        },
        {
            "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. 71",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n94"
        },
        {
            "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. 80",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n100"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.535",
    "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:03:59.229000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.535/1915.535_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 94980,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "wood with painting and gilding",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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