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Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings) by Washing Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)

Washing Painter

ca. 430–420 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device (recto); Text Page, Arabic Prose (verso) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device (recto); Text Page, Arabic Prose (verso)

Unrecorded maker

1315 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Terracotta oon (egg) by Washing Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta oon (egg)

Washing Painter

ca. 420–410 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device: Illustration from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Automata) of Ibn al-Razza al-Jazari (recto) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Peacock-shaped Hand Washing Device: Illustration from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Automata) of Ibn al-Razza al-Jazari (recto)

Unrecorded maker

1315 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) by Washing Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

Washing Painter

ca. 420 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pilate Washing His Hands by Albrecht Dürer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pilate Washing His Hands

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

1512 · Print, engraving

Cleared · CC0

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Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Small Passion" by Albrecht Dürer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

ca. 1509 · Woodcut

Cleared · Public Domain

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Lion Aquamanile by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lion Aquamanile

Unrecorded maker

1200–1250 · Sculpture, bronze: cast, chased, and punched

Cleared · CC0

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Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Small Passion" by Albrecht Dürer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

ca. 1509 · Woodcut

Cleared · Public Domain

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Arm of Eve by Albrecht Dürer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Arm of Eve

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

1507 · Drawing, point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache

Cleared · CC0

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Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Passion" by Albrecht Dürer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Passion"

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

1512 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Passion: Pilate Washing his Hands by Hieronymus Wierix, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Passion: Pilate Washing his Hands

Hieronymus Wierix (d. 1619)

before 1619 · Print, engraving

Cleared · CC0

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