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

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

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Results for "Clasp knife with cherub's head"12 records

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Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Personification of Faith by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Personification of Faith

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for a Knife Handle with a Couple Holding Hands by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Knife Handle with a Couple Holding Hands

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for a Knife Handle with Personifications of Charity and Patience by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Knife Handle with Personifications of Charity and Patience

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for a Knife Handle with the Sermon on the Mount by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Knife Handle with the Sermon on the Mount

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for Knife Handles with an Armed Woman and Susanna and the Elders, from Mansches de Coutiaus by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for Knife Handles with an Armed Woman and Susanna and the Elders, from Mansches de Coutiaus

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for Knife Handles with the Death of Lucretia and Grotesques by Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for Knife Handles with the Death of Lucretia and Grotesques

Theodor de Bry (d. 1598)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork

Cleared · Public Domain

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Four cherubs and a small boy standing by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four cherubs and a small boy standing

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

1646 · Etching, first state of two

Cleared · Public Domain

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Clasp knife with cherub's head by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clasp knife with cherub's head

Unrecorded maker

early 18th century · Steel, brass

Cleared · Public Domain

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Nécessaire by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nécessaire

Unrecorded maker

first quarter 18th century · Wood veneered with tortoiseshell and gold; implements of glass, ivory, and gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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Knife Handle (Kozuka) by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Knife Handle (Kozuka)

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1615–1868 · Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

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Piso, Knife (chopper) with Ancestor Figure Handle

Unrecorded maker

19th–early 20th century · Wood, metal, horn

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