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{
    "localId": "17047",
    "label": "Pendant with Intaglio Seal of Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Vulcan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.163"
}

{
    "id": "17047",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.163",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant with Intaglio Seal of Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Vulcan",
    "description": "Heliotrope, also called bloodstone, is a variety of green jasper or chalcedony with inclusions of hematite.",
    "provenance": "Raspe-Tassie, London, 1791; Lord Carmichael Sale, 1926, cat. no. 353, p. 39; Joseph Brummer, New York, 1927; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1525-1575 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.163",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "pendants",
        "seals"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.163_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.163_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.163_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2.3,
            "height": 2.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7/8 x 1 1/16 in. (2.3 x 2.7 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "heliotrope; silver mount",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "27edd1d2b5055666"
}