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    "localId": "5898",
    "label": "Warrior on horseback preceded by Pallas",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1037"
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    "id": "5898",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1037",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Warrior on horseback preceded by Pallas",
    "description": "intaglio",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 610]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 95, lot 610; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 105, lot 610; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "4th century",
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    "source": "import",
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            "units": "cm",
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5/8 x 11/16 in. (1.6 x 1.8 cm)"
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