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

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

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Results for "Body as Shell"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Shell fragment by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shell fragment

Unrecorded maker

ca. 9th–8th century BCE · Shell

Cleared · Public Domain

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Shell with Seated Noble by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Shell with Seated Noble

Unrecorded maker

600–900 · Sculpture, conch shell

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Cowrie shell by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cowrie shell

Unrecorded maker

332–30 BCE · Shell

Cleared · Public Domain

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Water Container with Shell and Seaweed by Seifū Yohei IV, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Water Container with Shell and Seaweed

Seifū Yohei IV (d. 1951)

1914–46 · Ceramic, Porcelain with underglaze blue, blue glaze and molded design and lacquered wood lid

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Tambuyuk (Conch Shell Trumpet)

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Shell (triton tritonis)

In copyright

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Water Container with Shell and Seaweed by Seifū Yohei IV, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Water Container with Shell and Seaweed

Seifū Yohei IV (d. 1951)

1914–46 · Ceramic, Porcelain with underglaze blue, blue glaze and molded design

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Shell Ring (Yua)

Unrecorded maker

19th–early 20th century · Tridacna shell

In copyright

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Crocodile Pendant by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Crocodile Pendant

Unrecorded maker

1000–1550 · Metalwork, cast gold, modern greenstone

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Engraved pearl shell

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1920–1960 · Carved Australian Gold-Lipped Pearl Shell, Pinctada Maxima [not endangered], natural earth pigments

In copyright

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Lid for a Water Container with Shell and Seaweed by Seifū Yohei IV, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lid for a Water Container with Shell and Seaweed

Seifū Yohei IV (d. 1951)

1914–46 · Ceramic, lacquered wood

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.

Engraved pearl shell

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1920–1960 · Carved Australian Gold-Lipped Pearl Shell, Pinctada Maxima [not endangered], natural earth pigments

In copyright

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Pair of Figures by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pair of Figures

Unrecorded maker

late 1800s–early 1900s · Sculpture, Wood, iron alloy, copper alloy, glass beads, plant fiber, and cloth

Cleared · CC0

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Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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