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{
    "localId": "24508",
    "label": "Medallion Pendant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.414"
}

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    "id": "24508",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.414",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Medallion Pendant",
    "description": "This enameled gold and jeweled medallion encloses a vari-colored relief of the Resurrection, and below the crystal-set open tomb, the skeleton of death, and cloven hoofed Satan. The frame with silhouette ornament on a red ground is embellished with white open scrolls set with crystals in square collets. Three hanging chains interspersed with pearls are attached to a suspension loop, with three hanging pearls below.",
    "provenance": "Seligman, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1600",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.414",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "pendants",
        "medallions"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.414_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.414_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.414_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8,
            "height": 4.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/8 x W: 1 7/8 in. (8 x 4.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gold, enamel, jewels, pearls",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6985"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JWL",
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "2054",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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}