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
599 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
440 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 407 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemum and Pawlonia
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquer, roiro, black takamakie, rubbed gold hiramakie, raden, metal inlay; Interior: roiro and fundame, two upper cases divided
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies
Koma Yasutada
late 18th century · Case: powdered gold and silver (maki-e) and gold foil on red lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay; Fastener (ojime): silver with design of bird and flowers in gold; Toggle (netsuke): carved ivory and colored lacquer with design of Daikoku in ivory and carnelian inlays
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Landscape
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquer with sprinkled gold makie and cut gold foil
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Trees, Crow, and Moon
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Takamaki-e with nashiji, gold and silver foil, and silver inlay on black lacquer; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: bead of inlaid metals and alloys; Netsuke: flowers, moon, and poem in gold lacquer on dark wood (signed: Designed by Hoitsu)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Curtains of State and a Woman's Fan
Koma Kōryū (d. 1796)
late 18th–19th century · Roiro (waxen) lacquer with decoration in togisashi sprinkled and polished lacquer; Ojime: gold lacquer bead; Netsuke: ivory "Dream of a Clam"
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Fireworks (obverse); Design of Fan (reverse)
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Case: red lacquer and powdered gold and silver (maki-e) on black lacquer; Fastener ojime): stone; Toggle (netsuke): colored lacquer on black lacquer with design of pomegranate
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowers and Grasses
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and silver hiramakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Geese and Reeds
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and red hiramakie, aogai, white lacquer; Interior: roiro and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Lute and Maple Leaves
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Case: powdered gold (maki-e), colored and black lacquer, and gold leaf on lightly grooved wood; Fastener (ojime): glass; Toggle (netsuke): gold and colored lacquer on black lacquer with design of tobacco leaves in mother-of-pearl inlay
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Saddle and Stirrups
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, brown ground, gold, black and silver hiramakie, metal inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame
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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Fagots and Basket
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Wood and lacquer
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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Fan and Chrysanthemums
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, tsuishu, gold hiramakie, ceramic inlay; Interior: roiro, nashiji and fundame
In copyright
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