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  • The Metlive

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

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

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Results for "Card Number 98, May Steele, from the Act"6 records

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Bell with Face (Tlaloc) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bell with Face (Tlaloc)

Unrecorded maker

11th–16th century · Copper or copper alloy

Cleared · Public Domain

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Watch by Pierre Vernede, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Watch

Pierre Vernede (d. 1680)

ca. 1650 · Case: rock crystal and enameled gold mounts; Dial: gold, champlevé enamel, and painted enamel; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Hooded wall clock with calendar by Ahasuerus I Fromanteel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hooded wall clock with calendar

Ahasuerus I Fromanteel (d. 1693)

ca. 1660–65 · Case: ebony and oak veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, gilded brass; Dial: gilded brass with silvered-brass chapter ring; Movement: brass, steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector by Johann G. Racine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Watch with portrait of Friedrick Wilhelm, the Great Elector

Johann G. Racine (d. 1748)

case ca. 1688, movement ca. 1750 · Case: painted enamel on gold; Movement: brass and steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock by James Cox, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox (d. 1800)

1766 · Case: gold with diamonds and paste jewels set in silver, pearls; Dial: white enamel; Movement: partly gilded brass and steel, wheel balance and cock of silver set with paste jewels

Cleared · Public Domain

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Card Number 98, May Steele, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes by W. Duke, Sons & Co., The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Card Number 98, May Steele, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

W. Duke, Sons & Co. (d. 1920)

1880s · Albumen photograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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