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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

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

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Results for "Design for a Sword Hilt"6 records

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Basket-Hilt Broadsword ("Mortuary Sword") by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Basket-Hilt Broadsword ("Mortuary Sword")

Unrecorded maker

hilt: c. 1640–50; blade: 1700s · Arms and Armor, steel, chiseled; inlaid gilt- silver foil; wood and wire grip

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Hunting Sword by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hunting Sword

Unrecorded maker

c. 1760–70 · Arms and Armor, steel; pierced and chiseled cast-iron hilt ; blade engraved

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Smallsword by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Smallsword

Unrecorded maker

c. 1730 · Arms and Armor, steel, blued, with gold encrusted decoration; chased and engraved; silver wire

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Estoc by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Estoc

Unrecorded maker

early 1500s · Arms and Armor, steel, wood and leather

Cleared · CC0

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Small Sword for a Boy by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Small Sword for a Boy

Unrecorded maker

c. 1650–1680 · Arms and Armor, steel, wood; hilt with inlaid floral designs in silver

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Cup-Hilted Rapier by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cup-Hilted Rapier

Unrecorded maker

c. 1650 · Arms and Armor, Pierced and chiseled steel;

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