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
1238 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
328 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Poems about Plum Blossoms, from the “Sekido-bon Version of Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern”
Fujiwara no Yukinari (d. 1027)
mid- to late 11th century · Page from a bound booklet mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on dyed paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quatrain by Meng Haoran
Emperor Lizong (d. 1264)
ca. 1260–64 · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Poem on Promulgating the Almanac at New Year’s
Wen Peng (d. 1573)
undated · Hanging scroll remounted as a panel; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Poem by Fujiwara no Ietaka (1158–1237) on Decorated Paper with Bush Clover
Ogata Sōken (d. 1687)
mid- to late 17th century · Poem card (shikishi) mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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“Spring Dawn” Poem by Meng Haoran
Jakugon Taijō (d. 1771)
1771 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Yoshiwara Courtesans: A New Mirror Comparing the Calligraphy of Beauties (Yoshiwara keisei: Shin bijin awase jihitsu kagami)吉原傾城」新美人合自筆鏡
Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝) (d. 1816)
1784, first month · Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
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.
The Scent of Scarlet Flowers (Shuka funpō)
Kaburaki Kiyokata 鏑木清方 (d. 1972)
1922 · Two-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk; gold leaf applied on the reverse side (urahaku)
In copyright
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