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    "localId": "80922",
    "label": "Bracelet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2318"
}

{
    "id": "80922",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2318",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bracelet",
    "description": "The chased bracelet is made of a larger (2/3) and a smaller piece (1/3) that together form a hollow ring, which is held together by a clasp. The design depicts fourleaf clovers, six on the larger piece and three on the smaller piece of the ring. The lower rim has twenty-two loops, each with a ring - twenty with three-dimensional drop-shaped pendants, one with a two dimensional drop-shaped pendant, and one with a rosette-shaped pendant.The inside of the bracelet has an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler: al-Mahdi. The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al-\"Abbas makes it likely that the pendants wereproduced under his reign from AH 1161-1189 (AD 1748-1775).In addition, the name of the silversmith is engraved in Hebrew: xxx \"Iraqi. The first name is lost but the supplement \"Iraqi clarifies that he or his family came from originally from Iraq.",
    "provenance": "Mr. Derek Content and Mr. Benjamin Zucker [Zucker Family Trust] London and New York, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.",
    "date": "1161-1189 AH/AD 1748-1775",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.2318",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "bracelets"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_TL.2010.3.10_VwA_DD_T10.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_TL.2010.3.10_VwA_DD_T10.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_TL.2010.3.10_VwA_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Outer diam: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Inner diam: 1 7/8 x W: 13/16 in. (4.8 x 2.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Stamp] In Arabic: al-Mahdi; [Engraved] In Hebrew: xxx 'Iraqi",
    "reign": "Al-Mahdi al-Abbas (1161-1189 AH/AD 1748-1775)",
    "med": "silver with gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15578"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JWL",
        "SAY"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3181",
        "3562"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_TL.2010.3.10_VwA_DD_T10.jpg",
    "mediaId": "240525b329fe6808"
}