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    "localId": "5448",
    "label": "Pectoral Icon with the Baptism of Christ and the Deesis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.145"
}

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    "id": "5448",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.145",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pectoral Icon with the Baptism of Christ and the Deesis",
    "description": "This delicately carved pendant in a silver frame was worn on the chest by a bishop or abbot. Christ stands in the center flanked by John the Baptist on the left and a group of five angels on the right. Christ, John, and the first two angels are shown standing on snakes or dragons in an allusion to Psalm 73:13: \"You divided the sea by your might: you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.\" The other side of the pendant contains a composition known as \"Deesis\", where the Virgin and John the Baptist flanks Christ and address to Him a prayer for the salvation of humankind.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.145",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Wood",
        "pendants",
        "icons"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.8,
            "height": 7.3,
            "depth": 1.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 1/2 in. (10.8 x 7.3 x 1.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Orthodox Eastern",
    "style": "Post-Byzantine",
    "dynasty": "Ottoman Dynasty",
    "med": "boxwood, gilded silver",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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