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{
    "localId": "1831",
    "label": "Clasp with Annunciation Scene",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.115"
}

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    "id": "1831",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.115",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Clasp with Annunciation Scene",
    "description": "During the Middle Ages, copper mantle clasps with enameled decoration and gemstones were primarily made for church garments. This clasp is decorated with the Annunciation scene, showing the Virgin and Gabriel surrounded by six dragons. This piece surely belonged to an ecclesiastical vestment.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Chalandon, Lyons [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henri Daguerre, Paris, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1325 (Gothic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.115",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "claps (fasteners)",
        "jewelry",
        "morses"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.115_Fnt_TR_T04II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Northern European",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "champlevé enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2227",
        "2513",
        "2289",
        "2963"
    ]
}

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}