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    "localId": "34622",
    "label": "Archaeological-Style Necklace with Emperor and Deities",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1535"
}

{
    "id": "34622",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1535",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Archaeological-Style Necklace with Emperor and Deities",
    "description": "The Castellani workshop was famous for its copies of ancient jewelry, and this necklace has been attributed Giacinto Melillo, one of Alessandro Castellani's apprentices and protégés (another similar necklace in the Walters collection, 57.1530, bears his mark on the clasp). In 1865, took over Castellani's workshop in Naples, which Henry Walters visited in 1903.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 19th-early 20th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.1535",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "necklaces",
        "intaglio"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.1535_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 17 in. (43.18 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gold, chalcedony, sardonyx, agate",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5055"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954",
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_57.1535_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "525e3daa1dbd0b62"
}