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    "localId": "78387",
    "label": "Binding from Oxford Bible Pictures",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.binding"
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    "id": "78387",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Binding from Oxford Bible Pictures",
    "description": "This binding from Walters manuscript W.106 is an early 20th-century binding by Leon Gruel, Paris. It is composed of shaped millboard, covered in worn red velvet, and incorporating a double sided 14th-century Rhenish ivory on the upper cover. The outside upper cover depicts the nativity, the inside cover depicts the crucifixion.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Ivory: late 14th century; Binding: early 20th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.binding",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 4,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Binding H: 5 1/2 x W: 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm); Ivory plaque H: 3 1/8 x W: 1 15/16 in. (8 x 5 cm)"
}

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