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    "localId": "16102",
    "label": "Reliquary for a Finger Bone",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.690"
}

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    "id": "16102",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.690",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Reliquary for a Finger Bone",
    "description": "Three angels elevate the hollow glass cylinder of this reliquary, a type of dramatic \"display\" reliquary that became popular in the late Middle Ages.  Inside is the relic of an unknown saint, a small fragment of a bone, possibly from a finger, wrapped in a piece of cloth.",
    "provenance": "Michel Boy, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 1905, no. 661; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "15th century (Late Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.690",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "reliquaries"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.690_DetA_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_57.690_DetA_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.5,
            "height": 8.4,
            "depth": 8.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 7/8 x 3 5/16 x 3 5/16 in. (22.5 x 8.4 x 8.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Burgundian",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "silver, gilded copper, glass, textile, human bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229",
        "6505"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2691"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "652114deb2371f51"
}