
Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle"
Unrecorded maker
13 BCE · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
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433 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
448 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle"
Unrecorded maker
13 BCE · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bathers Playing with a Crab
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (d. 1919)
c. 1897 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
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Shield with crab and fish figures
Moche artist(s)
500–800 CE · Gilded copper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for June (verso)
Unrecorded maker
c. 1510 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum
Cleared · CC0
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Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi (d. 1365)
dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)
Gotō Sōjō (d. 1538)
late 15th–early 16th century · Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold
Cleared · Public Domain
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Tray for incense burner and utensils
Unrecorded maker
early 17th century · Gold hiramaki-e, inlaid mother-of-pearl, and tinfoil on black lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Crabs and Peonies
Itō Jakuchū 伊藤若冲 (d. 1800)
mid-18th century, before 1766 · Double-sided freestanding screen (tsuitate); ink and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Snuff Bottle with Three Crabs
Unrecorded maker
late 18th century · Nephrite (jade) with coral stopper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Crabs Near the Water's Edge
Yashima Gakutei (d. 1868)
ca. 1830 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo 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.
Panel with Three Intact Vases and a Broken One, with Ruins in the Background, from a Series with Vases and Candlesticks in Landscapes
Henri II Bonnart (d. 1711)
18th century · Engraving, etching in red-brown ink
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Dish
Rookwood Pottery Company (d. 1967)
1880–81 · Earthenware
In copyright
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