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    "localId": "77430",
    "label": "Pair of Rock Crystal Candlesticks",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.5 (41.82, 41.83)"
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    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/VO.5 (41.82, 41.83)",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pair of Rock Crystal Candlesticks",
    "description": "Rock crystal, a transparent quartz mineral that was highly prized, can be carved in various ways, including with facets, as here, to catch the flickering light of a candle. Before the invention of electricity, candlelight in a darkened chapel would have created an easily understood metaphor for divine illumination.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1570-1610",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "18 11/16 in. (47.4 cm)"
}

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