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{
    "localId": "19139",
    "label": "One of a Pair of Columns from a Shrine",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.598"
}

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    "id": "19139",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.598",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "One of a Pair of Columns from a Shrine",
    "description": "This piece is one of two small columns, or colonnettes, detached from the sides of a church-shaped reliquary shrine.  One column (Walters 44.597) has checkered trellis pattern of enamel filled with tiny crosses and is topped by a gilt capital ornamented with small cast birds.  The other column (Walters 44.598) has alternating, diagonal bands filled with cross ornament set within quatrefoils and a capital cast with an acanthus-leaf motif.",
    "provenance": "Germeau, Paris; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by purchase; Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 23, 1949, no. 718; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "late 12th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.598",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "columns (architectural elements)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.598_Prof_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.7,
            "height": 4.4,
            "depth": 4.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (23.7 x 4.4 x 4.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Rhenish",
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "champlevé enamel on gilded copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5094"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "306"
    ]
}

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}