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{
    "localId": "9557",
    "label": "Pin with Lynx Head",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.384"
}

{
    "id": "9557",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.384",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pin with Lynx Head",
    "description": "The top of the gold pin is a finely modeled lynx head. A small molding on the shaft of the pin keeps the garnet bead and conical collar from slipping off. One setting with a tear-drop garnet is firmly fixed in the lynx's mouth by a pin, the extremity of which is looped. Chained to the loop is a second tear-drop garnet.",
    "provenance": "[From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine (?)]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; P. Mavrogordato, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague [catalogue 1921, part II, lot 92 E]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st century BC (Hellenistic)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.384",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "pins"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.384_VwA_TR_C79II.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_57.384_VwA_TR_C79II.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 1/2 in. (19 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Greek",
    "med": "gold, garnets",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6256"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "GRC",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS4_57.384_DD_AT19_3574_23-tms.jpg",
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