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    "localId": "11704",
    "label": "St. Catherine of Alexandria",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.276"
}

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    "id": "11704",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.276",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "St. Catherine of Alexandria",
    "description": "The half-length figure of the saint, her head, with coronet and veil, surrounded by a nimbus. A tiny cross hangs on her forehead. She carries the palm of a martyr and the sword of her execution, and she wears on her left hand the ring of her mystical marriage with Christ. She is dressed in a mantle trimmed with fur and a belted gown, with a purse hanging at her right, and is adorned with a necklace and earrings of pearls. Before her is the broken rim of the toothed wheel of her torture. The black background is powdered with stars. At the base is a tablet inscribed in gilding S. CATHARINA, and the monogram IL, with a fleur-de-lys between the two letters.",
    "provenance": "Montagu Edmond Parker [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Albert Edward Parker, third Earl of Morley, [date of acquisition unknown] by inheritance; Sale, London, July 13, 1897, lot 47; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.276",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.276_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.276_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.6,
            "height": 7.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 3/16 x W: 2 15/16 in. (10.6 x 7.4 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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