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{
    "localId": "20200",
    "label": "Pendant with an Intaglio of Pallas Athena",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1028"
}

{
    "id": "20200",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1028",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant with an Intaglio of Pallas Athena",
    "description": "This is a copy of an ancient Roman rock crystal intaglio now in the Berlin Museum. Both are signed in Greek: \"Eutyches, son of Dioskourides of Aigeai made it.\"",
    "provenance": "William Ponsonby, second Earl of Bessborough, Parkstead House, London, by 1761, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Bessborough no. 13]; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, ca. 1765, by purchase [Marlborough no. 81]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 12, lot 81; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 14, lot 81; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1028",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios (sculptural objects)",
        "pendants",
        "gems"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1028_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1028_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1028_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.7,
            "height": 3.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 7/8 x 1 1/4 in. (4.7 x 3.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Eutyches",
        "son of Dioskourides of Aigeai made it"
    ],
    "med": "amethyst, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 5,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_42.1028_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c44082c6ce52f43f"
}