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    "localId": "13743",
    "label": "Earring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1729"
}

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    "id": "13743",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1729",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Earring",
    "description": "Annular earring with three pendants of plaited chains to each of which is attached a croix patee of hollow gold, the front ornamented with repousse featherings and a central cell holding green vitreous paste; below each cross is suspended an amethyst drop. One cross and one amethyst may be restorations.Hoop earrings with suspended gemstones were worn by women throughout the Byzantine Empire.  This unusually fine example has woven \"loop-in-loop\" chains linked to small gold crosses, indicating that it was made for a Christian woman.",
    "provenance": "Amin Khawam, Cairo, by purchase; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, November 30, 1943, no. 519; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by purchase.",
    "date": "6th century (Late Antique)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1729",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "earrings (jewelry)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.7,
            "height": 3.7,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 13/16 x 1 7/16 x 3/16 in. (9.7 x 3.7 x 0.6 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Byzantine",
    "med": "gold, amethysts, enamel",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "BYZ",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "358",
        "2054",
        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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