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Yes. “Tonggu” is public domain and released under CC0, so it is free to download and reuse for any purpose, including commercially, with no permission needed.

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Yes. As a CC0 public-domain work it can be used commercially, modified and redistributed with no fee and no attribution required.

“Tonggu” (before 1889) is a public-domain (CC0) artwork, free to view, download and reuse for any purpose. It is catalogued from the open collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tonggu

Title	Tonggu
Date	before 1889 19th century
Medium	Bronze
Classification	Idiophone-Struck-gong
Origin	Chinese (possibly Yunnan Province) Chinese
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Rights	Public domain (CC0)

About this artwork

“Tonggu” is a work of unattributed authorship, dated before 1889. It is executed in bronze and classified as idiophone-struck-gong. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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