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
304 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
424 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 260 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Poems about the Arrival of Autumn, from Newly Selected Collection of Poems to Sing (Shinsen rōeishū), one of the “Yamana Fragments” (Yamana-gire)
Fujiwara no Mototoshi (d. 1142)
ca. 1116–22 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper with gold and silver flecks
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing
Konoe Nobutada (d. 1614)
early 17th century · Album of thirty-six leaves; each on gold, silver, or colored decorated paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Leaf from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Unrecorded maker
first edition printed in 1633 · Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy
Hu Zhengyan (d. 1634)
first edition printed in 1633 · Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Chinese Verse on Spiritual Enlightenment
Feiyin Tongrong (d. 1661)
1656 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Poems on “Wind” from Japanese and Chinese and Poems to Sing
Horie Yorinao (Tōgen) (d. 1693)
1670 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
The Thousand-Character Classic (Senjimon)
Ike no Taiga (d. 1776)
ca. 1751 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Landscape and Couplet of Chinese Verse
Ike no Taiga (d. 1776)
late 18th century · Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Chinese Palampore
Unrecorded maker
1750–1800 · Silk satin embroidered with silk
Cleared · Public Domain
live
A Chinese Verse on “Compiling History”
Rai San’yō 頼山陽 (d. 1832)
ca. late 1820s · Hanging scroll; ink 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.
Quatrain of Chinese Verse
Fukuda Kodōjin 福田古道人 (d. 1944)
early 20th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
In copyright
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.
"Chinese Garden"
Alexander McQueen (d. 1992)
spring/summer 2005 · cork
In copyright
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