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    "localId": "10366",
    "label": "Appliqué Figure of the Madonna and Child",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.3"
}

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    "id": "10366",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.3",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Appliqué Figure of the Madonna and Child",
    "description": "The Virgin hands the Christ child an apple which symbolizes the redemption of mankind after the original sin of Adam and Eve. The hollow metal figures were once attached to a wooden or metal throne.",
    "provenance": "Henri Daguerre (?), Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "13th century (Medieval)",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "copper with gilding",
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}

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