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

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Results for "Coiled serpent"9 records

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Naga (Serpent Divinity) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Naga (Serpent Divinity)

Unrecorded maker

300s CE · Sculpture, sandstone

Cleared · CC0

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Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Feathered Serpent (Quetzalcoatl)

Unrecorded maker

1325–1521 · Stone, stone

Cleared · CC0

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Bell (Bo Zhong) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bell (Bo Zhong)

Unrecorded maker

early 400s BCE · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Alarums and Excursions by Maxfield Parrish, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Alarums and Excursions

Maxfield Parrish (d. 1966)

1899 · Drawing, brush and black and gray wash, with white gouache, over graphite, framing lines in pen and black ink

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Lime Dipper by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lime Dipper

Unrecorded maker

c. 1–800 CE · Metalwork, gold

Cleared · CC0

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Lime Dipper by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lime Dipper

Unrecorded maker

c. 1–800 CE · Metalwork, gold

Cleared · CC0

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Lime Dipper by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lime Dipper

Unrecorded maker

c. 1–800 CE · Metalwork, gold

Cleared · CC0

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Leaf from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial P with the Prophet Samuel; Arms of the Visconti Family and the Olivetan Order by Olivetan Master, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial P with the Prophet Samuel; Arms of the Visconti Family and the Olivetan Order

Olivetan Master

c. 1439–47 · Manuscript, ink, tempera and gold on vellum

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Doorknocker with Gorgon Head by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Doorknocker with Gorgon Head

Unrecorded maker

mid-1500s · Sculpture, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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