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{
    "localId": "34842",
    "label": "Belt Buckle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.424"
}

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    "id": "34842",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.424",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Belt Buckle",
    "description": "The square plate of this buckle is divided by cloisons (wire strips) into small cavities set with garnets and blue and green glass pastes. Cross-hatched gold foil underlies the remains of the central green paste. This would have given a shimmering effect to the setting when this buckle was new.  Such buckles are characteristic of Visigothic metalwork.",
    "provenance": "[Found in Estramadura, Spain (?)]; Henri Daguerre, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, October 10, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "6th century (Early Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.424",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "buckles (strap accessories)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.424_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.424_Fnt_DD_T07.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 4.2,
            "height": 7.3,
            "depth": 2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 5/8 x W: 2 7/8 x D: 13/16 in. (4.2 x 7.3 x 2 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Visigothic",
    "med": "bronze, gold, garnets, glass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4764"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2054",
        "2107",
        "358",
        "2513",
        "2704"
    ]
}

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