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{
    "localId": "3040",
    "label": "Plaque from a Shrine",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.604"
}

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    "id": "3040",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.604",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque from a Shrine",
    "description": "This plaque probably came from the St. Anno Shrine (1183) in Cologne. The engraved heads were modeled on antique sources such as Roman gems and cameos fitted into large church-shaped shrines in this period. Plaques of this type were used to conceal the joints in the metalwork.",
    "provenance": "Paul Beumer, Berlin; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York; Joseph Brummer Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 20, 1949, no. 697; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "1180-1185 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.604",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.604_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_44.604_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.8,
            "height": 3.9,
            "depth": 0.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/2 x W: 1 9/16 x D: 1/8 in. (3.8 x 3.9 x 0.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Rhenish",
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "champlevé enamel on gilded copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5094"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "306"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "b96da84e69c943d3"
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