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Stencil

Title	Stencil
Medium	Paper
Classification	Stencils
Origin	Japan Japan
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953
Rights	Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose.

Subjects: Botanical illustration

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Dated to 17th century. Explore the wider set of works from the 17th century held in the archive.

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Recorded origin: Japan. Browse more public-domain art from Japan.

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Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.

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