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{
    "localId": "23462",
    "label": "Paternoster Bead from a Rosary or Chaplet with Christ, a Young Woman, and Death",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.326"
}

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    "id": "23462",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.326",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Paternoster Bead from a Rosary or Chaplet with Christ, a Young Woman, and Death",
    "description": "This pendant combines the heads of Christ, a young woman, and skull from which worms crawl, symbolizing Death. The carver's attention to lifelike detail extends to the minute row of teeth revealed by Christ's parted lips. the ivory is worn from the frequent stroking as the bead ran through the fingers of the Catholic user saying a prayer to Our Father (Paternoster).",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1500-1530 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.326",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "beads (pierced objects)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.326_Lft_BW_H69.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.326_Lft_BW_H69.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_71.326_Lft_BW_H69.jpg",
    "imageCount": 14,
    "pageCount": 14,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 5.1,
            "height": 4.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 × Diam: 1 13/16 in. (5.1 × 4.6 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6505",
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994",
        "97",
        "3490"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_71.326_VwB_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e82ba5e030e26ff6"
}