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"description": "From the 11th century onward, altar crosses like this one often featured elaborate bases. The most impressive decoration of this cross is its stand: a lavish array of intertwining scrolls emerges from three pawlike legs, while birds perch amid the scrolls and dragon heads sprout from others.",
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"citation": "Mende, Ursula. Gusswerke: Beitra\u0308Ge Zur Bronzekunst Des Mittelalters. Edited by Michael Brandt, Claudia Ho\u0308hl, and Lothar Lambacher. 1. Auflage. [Berlin], Regensburg: Deutscher Verein fu\u0308r Kunstwissenschaft e.V.; Schnell + Steiner, 2020.",
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