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
398 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
590 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,156 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
King Siddhartha Tells Queen Trisala the Meaning of the Fourteen Dreams (left) and The Interpretation of Dreams (right): Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript
Unrecorded maker
15th century · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Abbot's Stall
Unrecorded maker
c. 1500–1515 · Furniture and woodwork, oak
Cleared · CC0
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Triple Choir Stall with Canopy
Unrecorded maker
15th century · Oak
Cleared · Public Domain
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Earring with Four-Armed Vishnu Riding Garuda with Nagas (serpent divinities)
Unrecorded maker
1600s or 1700s · Jewelry, repousse gold with pearls
Cleared · CC0
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Canopied Seat
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1500 · Oak
Cleared · Public Domain
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Earring with Four-Armed Vishnu Riding Garuda with Nagas (serpent divinities)
Unrecorded maker
1600s or 1700s · Jewelry, repousse gold with pearls
Cleared · CC0
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Lit à la Chinoise (Chinese Bed), from Nouvelle iconologie historique (part III, series marked 'G')
Jean Charles Delafosse (d. 1789)
1771 or after · Etching and engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pair of Earrings with Four-Armed Vishnu Riding Garuda with Nagas (serpent divinities)
Unrecorded maker
1600s or 1700s · Jewelry, repousse gold with pearls
Cleared · CC0
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Dog kennel
Claude I Sené (d. 1792)
ca. 1775–80 · Gilded beech and pine; silk and velvet
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Feast of Herod (recto); Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus (verso)
Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640)
c. 1637–38 · Drawing, pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache
Cleared · CC0
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The Pope, from "Dance of Death"
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
[1651] late 18th century printing · Etching; second state of four
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Feast of Herod (recto)
Peter Paul Rubens (d. 1640)
c. 1637–38 · Drawing, pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, touched with white gouache
Cleared · CC0
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