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    "localId": "29242",
    "label": "Spiral Pendant from an Earring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.423"
}

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    "id": "29242",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.423",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spiral Pendant from an Earring",
    "description": "Gold leaf over silver; filigree ornament.  Knob and stub (degenerate animal head?) at each end and at 2 points on spiral.  Filigree on stem of spiral.  Silver corroded, breaking through gold.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as part of the so-called \"\"Jugoslavian Treasure\"\"]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "7th century BCE",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.423",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "pendants",
        "earrings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.423_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_57.423_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 3/8 in. (3.49 cm) (diam.)"
}

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    "med": "gold leaf over silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6291"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "721"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_57.423_Fnt_BW.jpg",
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