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    "localId": "28959",
    "label": "Ring with Cupid Chasing a Butterfly",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.126"
}

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    "id": "28959",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.126",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Ring with Cupid Chasing a Butterfly",
    "description": "This ring uses naturally occurring color variations in a slice of agate to create a miniature relief of Cupid chasing a butterfly, which represents the human soul. Other neoclassical artists also represented this theme, perhaps most famously the marble by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, which is in the Louvre in Paris. The cameo is set in a pierced gold ring.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.126",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.6,
            "height": 1.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H of bezel: 5/8 x W: 1/2 in. (1.59 x 1.27 cm)"
}

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    "med": "agate, gold",
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}

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