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  • The Metlive

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "Brush Pot with Scene of Washing an Elep"8 records

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Brush pot with scene from The Investiture of the Gods by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brush pot with scene from The Investiture of the Gods

Unrecorded maker

mid-17th century · Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Brush Pot with Scene of Washing an Elephant by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brush Pot with Scene of Washing an Elephant

Unrecorded maker

mid-17th century · Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Brush holder with scholars in a garden by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brush holder with scholars in a garden

Unrecorded maker

late 18th century · Carved red lacquer

Cleared · Public Domain

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Brush holder with tribute scene by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brush holder with tribute scene

Unrecorded maker

18th century · Jade (nephrite)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Panel with Flowers in Vase and Scholar's Objects by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panel with Flowers in Vase and Scholar's Objects

Unrecorded maker

18th century · Silk and metal thread embroidery with small pearls on silk twill

Cleared · Public Domain

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Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso) by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso)

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

1799 · Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

Cleared · Public Domain

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An Irish Howl by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Irish Howl

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

ca. 1799 · Pen and brush, with two different inks

Cleared · Public Domain

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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.

Catharine Van Wyck

M. C. Van Wyck (d. 1969)

1969 · Watercolor and black chalk on white wove paper faced on cardboard

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