Rights clearance desk for images
Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.
Where this page got its records
583 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
286 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,962 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (d. 1206)
dated 715 AH/1315 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design Fragment for the Left Side of the 'Fonte Gaia' in Siena
Jacopo della Quercia (Jacopo di Pietro d’Angelo di Guarnieri) (d. 1438)
1415–16 · Pen and medium brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint and ruling, on vellum, glued onto secondary paper support
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Sword-belt, Knife, and Stylus
Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II (d. 1599)
ca. 1555 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Glass (?) Ewer
Stefano della Bella (d. 1664)
ca. 1640–60 · Pen and brown ink over black chalk, blue wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side Chair
Samuel McIntire (d. 1811)
1794–99 · Mahogany, ebony, ash, birch, white pine
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side chair
Herter Brothers (d. 1906)
ca. 1870 · Gilded wood and reproduction upholstery
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side chair
Herter Brothers (d. 1906)
ca. 1870 · Gilded wood and reproduction upholstery
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side chair
Christopher Dresser (d. 1904)
ca. 1870 · Gilt, ebonized and carved wood, modern green plush
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side table
Edward William Godwin (d. 1886)
ca. 1872 · Walnut and gilt brass
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side chair
Herter Brothers (d. 1906)
1879 · Rosewood, brass, mother-of-pearl, and reproduction upholstery
Cleared · Public Domain
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Side chair
Herter Brothers (d. 1906)
1879 · Rosewood, brass, mother-of-pearl, and reproduction upholstery
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.
Petal side table
Richard Schultz (d. 2021)
1960 · Wood, aluminum, steel or cast iron
In copyright
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