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    "localId": "8828",
    "label": "Cong",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.340"
}

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    "id": "8828",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cong",
    "description": "Among the jades from the 3rd millennium BCE, the cong displays the most complex form: a cylinder encased in a square that gently tapers from top to bottom. Simple masks with circular eyes and rectangular mouths decorate the corners. Primarily found in burials and buried caches, jade congs probably served as ritual objects, with the round part representing the heavens and its square part the earth.",
    "provenance": "Dr. John C. Ferguson Collection Sale, American Art Association, April 7, 1916, no. 57; Henry Walters, Baltimore, April 7, 1916, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "3rd millennium BCE (Neolithic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.340",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16.5,
            "height": 7.6,
            "depth": 7.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 1/2 × W: 3 × D: 3 in. (16.5 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "jade",
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    ],
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    ],
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