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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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.

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    536 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "Ancestor Pair"10 records

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Female Figure of a Pair by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Female Figure of a Pair

Unrecorded maker

late 1800s–early 1900s · Sculpture, Wood, iron alloy, glass beads, plant fiber, and cloth

Cleared · CC0

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Male Figure of a Pair by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Male Figure of a Pair

Unrecorded maker

late 1800s–early 1900s · Sculpture, Wood, iron alloy, copper alloy, and cloth

Cleared · CC0

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Pair of Figures by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pair of Figures

Unrecorded maker

late 1800s–early 1900s · Sculpture, Wood, iron alloy, copper alloy, glass beads, plant fiber, and cloth

Cleared · CC0

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Wine Cup (pair) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Wine Cup (pair)

Unrecorded maker

1900s · Metalwork, brass

Cleared · CC0

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Wine Cup by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Wine Cup

Unrecorded maker

1900s · Metalwork, brass

Cleared · CC0

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Wine Cup by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Wine Cup

Unrecorded maker

1900s · Metalwork, brass

Cleared · CC0

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Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Peter of Poitiers's "Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi" (pair)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1220 · Manuscript, ink and tempera on a vellum roll of four membranes

Cleared · CC0

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Altar figure (onílé) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Altar figure (onílé)

Unrecorded maker

possibly 1700s · Sculpture, Copper alloy

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Turban end with tiraz by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Turban end with tiraz

Unrecorded maker

983–990 · Textile, plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen and silk

Cleared · CC0

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The Bodhisattvas of the Ten Stages in Attaining the Most Perfect Knowledge; The Eight Hosts of Deva, Naga, and Yakshi by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Bodhisattvas of the Ten Stages in Attaining the Most Perfect Knowledge; The Eight Hosts of Deva, Naga, and Yakshi

Unrecorded maker

1454 · Painting, Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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