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{
    "localId": "6087",
    "label": "Intaglio of Bacchus and a Silen",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1182"
}

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    "id": "6087",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1182",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio of Bacchus and a Silen",
    "description": "The heads of Bacchus (Dionysos), on the left, and Silenus, on the right, are in profile and facing each other on this intaglio. Bacchus is wearing a fillet, and one of Silenus’ pointed ears is visible. The heads had traditionally been identified as the philosophers Socrates and Plato.",
    "provenance": "John Stanhope, London, by 1748, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, London, 1748, by bequest; William Ponsonby, second Earl of Bessborough, Parkstead House, London, by 1761, by purchase [Bessborough no. 7 C, as \"\"Socrates and Plato\"\"]; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, ca. 1765, by purchase [Marlborough no. 356]; 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. 57, lot 356; 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. 65, lot 356; 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": "1st century BC (Late Hellenistic-early Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1182",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios (sculptural objects)",
        "finger rings"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1182_Fnt_BW_H71.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.6,
            "height": 2.1,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "intaglio with gold setting: 5/8 x 13/16 x 1/4 in. (1.64 x 2.09 x 0.59 cm);ring: 13/16 in. (2.11 cm) (diam.)"
}

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    "cul": "Greco-Roman",
    "med": "carnelian; mount: gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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