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    "localId": "20215",
    "label": "Intaglio with Mercury Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1283"
}

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    "id": "20215",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1283",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Mercury Set in a Ring",
    "description": "The god Mercury appears on this intaglio wearing a cloak and his winged petasos. He stands leaning on a column while holding his caduceus in his right hand and a purse in his left. There is a rooster on the left and a scorpion on the right.",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 172]; 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. 25, lot 172; 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. 29, lot 172; 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": "1st-2nd century CE (Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1283",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "rings",
        "intaglio",
        "gem"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "carnelian; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
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    "pageIndex": 0,
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