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    "localId": "14071",
    "label": "Pendant in the Shape of a Book",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/46.1"
}

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    "id": "14071",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/46.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant in the Shape of a Book",
    "description": "This pendant, shaped like a miniature book, has on its covers images of the Agony in the Garden and Moses and the Brazen Serpent in reverse painting on glass. Inside are images of the Lamb of God with three nails and St. Joseph of Arimathea. Such an exquisite object could be attached to a girdle (belt) or a rosary.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1600 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/46.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pendants"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_46.1_Fnt_BW_2703.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_46.1_Fnt_BW_2703.jpg",
    "imageCount": 8,
    "pageCount": 8,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.2,
            "height": 2.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 1/4 x 1 in. (3.2 x 2.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "amelierung reverse-painted glass, gilded silver",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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