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    "localId": "37370",
    "label": "Choirmaster's Crozier with Saints Valerie, Martial, and Michael",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.83"
}

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    "id": "37370",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.83",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Choirmaster's Crozier with Saints Valerie, Martial, and Michael",
    "description": "This unusual crozier branches into two volutes, containing on one side St. Valerie kneeling with her decapitated head, guided by a small angel. St. Martial, the bishop who converted her to Christianity, is seen on the other side, celebrating the Mass. At the top is the archangel St. Michael; all three were patron saints of Limoges. Made for a choirmaster, this crozier's two volutes symbolize the two parts of the chants (verses and responses) that were traditionally sung by a choir of monks.",
    "provenance": "Dugué, Paris, before 1847; Sale, Paris, March 7, 1851, no. 2; Hollingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedford, 1851, by purchase; Charles Magniac, Colworth, 1867, by inheritance; Sale, Christie's, London, July 2, 1892, no. 504; Edward Arnold, London, by purchase; Sale, London, June 8, 1920, no. 183; Webb; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1920, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.83",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "crosiers (episcopal)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 32.8,
            "height": 16,
            "depth": 2.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "12 15/16 x 6 5/16 x 7/8 in. (32.8 x 16 x 2.3 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "med": "gilded copper, rock crystal, semiprecious stones",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "316"
    ]
}

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