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{
    "localId": "23964",
    "label": "Clasp for a Secular Garment",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.16"
}

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    "id": "23964",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.16",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Clasp for a Secular Garment",
    "description": "During the Middle Ages, copper mantle clasps with enameled decoration and gemstones were primarily made for church garments. This clasp from France was sewn onto fabric using holes around the borders. However, this piece, without figural representation and decorated with gemstones could have been worn with a secular garment.",
    "provenance": "Victor Gay, Paris, by purchase; Collection of Victor Gay Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 23, 1909, no. 35; Henri Daguerre, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.16",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "morses",
        "jewelry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.16_Fnt_TR_T04II.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.16_Fnt_TR_T04II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_44.16_Fnt_TR_T04II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.4,
            "height": 10.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 5/16 x W: 4 1/4 in. (8.41 x 10.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "gilded copper, champlevé enamel, gemstones",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2054",
        "2227",
        "2513",
        "2704",
        "796"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_44.16_NF_3702-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "02e25f007725af8e"
}