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    "localId": "31654",
    "label": "Cameo with the Head of Janus (obverse); Overlapping Masks (reverse)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1009"
}

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    "id": "31654",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1009",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cameo with the Head of Janus (obverse); Overlapping Masks (reverse)",
    "description": "This type of carved cameo with a Roman mythological subject was a speciality of carvers in Italy to feed the market for \"antique carved gems.\"",
    "provenance": "William Ponsonby, second Earl of Bessborough, Parkstead House, London, by 1761, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Bessborough no. 34]; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, London, by 1762, by purchase [Marlborough no. 255]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, London, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, London, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, London, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 39, lot 255; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by inheritance; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 44, lot 255; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "16th century (Late Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1009",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "cameos"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.1009_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.1009_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.6,
            "height": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 7/16 x W: 7/8 in. (3.6 x 2.2 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "banded sardonyx with modern gold mount",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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