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

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

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Results for "Two Sample Letters on the Chinese Lanter"12 records

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Bowl with Central Fish Motif by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bowl with Central Fish Motif

Unrecorded maker

13th century · Stonepaste; incised and polychrome painted under transparent glaze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, Continued (Zoku Kokin wakashū) by Nun Abutsu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Poems from the Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, Continued (Zoku Kokin wakashū)

Nun Abutsu (d. 1283)

13th century · Page from a booklet, mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Sample Letters on the Chinese Lantern Festival and a Poem about Plum Blossoms by Kojima Sōshin, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Sample Letters on the Chinese Lantern Festival and a Poem about Plum Blossoms

Kojima Sōshin (d. 1656)

1657 · Handscroll: ink on decorated paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pair of Rowel Spurs by Manuel Casco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pair of Rowel Spurs

Manuel Casco (d. 1800)

dated 1738 · Iron

Cleared · Public Domain

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Feeding bowl by Villeroy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Feeding bowl

Villeroy (d. 1748)

1745 · Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels

Cleared · Public Domain

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Dwarf (one of a pair) by Villeroy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dwarf (one of a pair)

Villeroy (d. 1748)

ca. 1740–45 · Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels

Cleared · Public Domain

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Courtesan Reading a Letter by Ishikawa Toyonobu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Courtesan Reading a Letter

Ishikawa Toyonobu (d. 1785)

mid-18th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2 by Rudolph Ackermann, London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1st series, vol. 2

Rudolph Ackermann, London (d. 1832)

July–December 1809 · Illustrations: hand-colored etching, engraving, woodcut, and textile samples

Cleared · Public Domain

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Five personal letters by Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Five personal letters

Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月 (d. 1875)

mid- to late 19th century · Letters mounted as a handscroll; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Inkstand in the shape of a butterfly by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inkstand in the shape of a butterfly

Unrecorded maker

19th century · Painted enamel on copper alloy

Cleared · Public Domain

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Letter by Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Letter

Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入 (d. 1907)

mid- to late 19th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Seventeen Letters

Xu Beihong (d. 1953)

dated 1938–48 · Handscroll; ink on paper

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