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    "localId": "18646",
    "label": "Virgin and Child",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.216"
}

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    "id": "18646",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.216",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Virgin and Child",
    "description": "The Virgin wears a diadem and is dressed in a blue robe and a purple mantle. The child Christ wears a long green robe. The group is seated on a low bench resting on a tiled floor. At an early date this plaque was exported to northern Italy, where it was set in a nielloed gilt-metal frame. God the Father appears in the nielloed plaque of the small tympanum and the band underneath is inscribed in niello: PAX VOBIS. The frame is decorated with acroteria, thorny acanthus leaves, egg-and-dart, dentils, cherubs' heads, palmettes, and flanked by two pilasters, their capitals adorned with acanthus leaves and two rosettes, their shafts with elongated leafy motifs.",
    "provenance": "Valerio Collection (?); Sale, Paris, December 18, 1893; Jacques Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 16th century (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.216",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "paxes"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.216_Fnt_BW_H66.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17,
            "height": 9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Pax H: 6 11/16 x W: 3 9/16 in. (17 x 9 cm); Plaque H: 2 5/8 x W: 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper, with silver niello frame",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6745",
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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