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    418 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    463 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "An Object of Interest"12 records

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Amulet of a baboon holding an unrecognizable object by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amulet of a baboon holding an unrecognizable object

Unrecorded maker

525–30 BCE · Glass

Cleared · Public Domain

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Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar by Chantilly Porcelain Factory, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar

Chantilly Porcelain Factory

c. 1735–40 · Ceramic, Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Ceremonial Object in the Shape of an Ax by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ceremonial Object in the Shape of an Ax

Unrecorded maker

ca. 100 BCE–300 CE · Bronze alloy

Cleared · Public Domain

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Candelabrum Stand of a Dancing Maenad by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Candelabrum Stand of a Dancing Maenad

Unrecorded maker

525–500 BCE · Sculpture, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Unidentified Object by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unidentified Object

Unrecorded maker

9th–10th century · Bronze; cast

Cleared · Public Domain

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Square Covered Box with Hundred Antiquities by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Square Covered Box with Hundred Antiquities

Unrecorded maker

1723–35 · Ceramic, porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Me and My Wife and Daughter by Henry William Bunbury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Me and My Wife and Daughter

Henry William Bunbury (d. 1811)

1780–1800 · Etching, hand-colored

Cleared · Public Domain

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Square Covered Box with Hundred Antiquities by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Square Covered Box with Hundred Antiquities

Unrecorded maker

1723–35 · Ceramic, porcelain with famille rose overglaze enamel decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Cave of Pan, near Sunium, Greece by Simone Pomardi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cave of Pan, near Sunium, Greece

Simone Pomardi (d. 1830)

1805 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black wash over graphite

Cleared · Public Domain

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Covered Broth Bowl and Stand (Écuelle ronde et plateau ovale) by Sèvres Porcelain Factory, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Covered Broth Bowl and Stand (Écuelle ronde et plateau ovale)

Sèvres Porcelain Factory (d. 1756)

1772 · Ceramic, soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration

Cleared · CC0

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Raised Relief Fragment with a Male Figure Grasping an Object Decorated with Representations of Non-Egyptians

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1971–1926 B.C. · Limestone

In copyright

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Bowl with Auspicious Ideographs and Floral Motifs by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Auspicious Ideographs and Floral Motifs

Unrecorded maker

1600s · Ceramic, Stoneware with overglaze color enamels

Cleared · CC0

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