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    "localId": "2197",
    "label": "Border of Brocatelle with Adoration of the Christ Child",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.649"
}

{
    "id": "2197",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.649",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Border of Brocatelle with Adoration of the Christ Child",
    "description": "This type of textile is known as a Florentine repeat border fabric: woven in long strips, then cut and sewn on vestments. There is a similar piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Saidie A. May; given to Walters Art Museum, 1945.",
    "date": "15th century (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/83.649",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Textiles",
        "textiles",
        "brocade"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_83.649_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_83.649_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_83.649_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28,
            "height": 47.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 x W: 18 3/4 in. (28 x 47.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Sienese",
    "med": "colored and metal threads with red taffeta lining",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN",
        "TAF"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_83.649_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bf7dd384caacf3ca"
}