Marcus Oinochoe by the Shuvalov Painter (Q834119) is in Public Domain. In EU once an author is dead for 70 years the work falls into PD. The object is usually own by someone and that someone might put all kinds of restrictions on access to the objects or on photographing it, but they are not using copyright laws to justify it. Photographs of such objects only carry photographers copyright. If you are not convinced you can do a simple test: If that object is still copyrighted than the image of it can not be hosted on Commons. File Deletion request for the image and you will get second opinion.
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Jarekt - we talking abou the object. Not about the images of the object. And the object is owned by an Institution. The object is not Public Domain. We're not talking about Copy right here. We talking about the object itself.
Marcus, Let me quote 1st sentence of [[en:Public Domain]: "The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply". The statement you have removed only stated that this work in not covered by any "exclusive intellectual property rights" (copyrights). Most valuable objects are own by some institution, I am sure Mona Lisa is or US constitution, but both are also in Public Domain. PD just means "no copyrights" and is unrelated to ownership.