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    "localId": "2540",
    "label": "Intaglio with a Warrior Holding a Helmet Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.855"
}

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    "id": "2540",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.855",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with a Warrior Holding a Helmet Set in a Ring",
    "description": "This intaglio depicts a warrior, possibly Ajax or Achilles, seated on a cloth with one leg outstretched. He rests his elbow on his knee and looks at a crested helmet in his left hand. A segmented border runs around the outer edge. This gem may be an 18th century imitation of a 5th century BCE Etruscan gem.",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, by purchase [Marlborough no. 333]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 53, lot 333; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 61, lot 333; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "5th century BCE or 18th century (Late Archaic-Classical or modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.855",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "intaglios (sculptural objects)",
        "gems",
        "fingerrings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.855_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_42.855_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1/2 in. (1.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Etruscan",
    "med": "carnelian; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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