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{
    "localId": "20294",
    "label": "Ring with Onyx Cameo of a Bacchante (Female Follower of Bacchus, God of Wine)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.138"
}

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    "id": "20294",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.138",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Onyx Cameo of a Bacchante (Female Follower of Bacchus, God of Wine)",
    "description": "The image of a priestess of Bacchus dancing with her symbol the \"thrysos\" is taken from an intaglio dating from the 5th century BC.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.138",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "cameos",
        "finger rings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.138_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.138_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 x W: 6 11/16 in. (28 x 17 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "onyx, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_42.138_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "37f23d4dfd4de4ad"
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