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
232 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
332 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,671 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Desk (Secretary)
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1730–35 · Pine; carved, painted, gilded, and varnished linden wood decorated with colored decoupage prints; mirror glass; the inside of the fall front lined with silk not original to the secretary
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fall-front Secretary
Leonard Boudin (d. 1804)
c. 1765–75 · Furniture and woodwork, wood marquetry, gilt bronze mounts, marble
Cleared · CC0
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Drop-front secretaire (secrétaire à abattant)
Jean-François Dubut (d. 1778)
ca. 1760 · Veneered on oak, in front with panels of black and gold lacquer, partly Chinese and partly European, and on the sides with floral marquetry in tulipwood, rosewood, satinwood, purplewood, and various other end-cut woods; mounts of gilded and chased bronze; top of breche d'Aleps marble
Cleared · Public Domain
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Filing cabinet (cartonnier) (part of a set)
Joseph Baumhauer (d. 1772)
ca. 1770 · Oak veneered with tulipwood, purplewood, casuarina wood, kingwood, gilt-bronze mounts
Cleared · Public Domain
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Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Jean Henri Riesener (d. 1806)
1783 · Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en armoire)
Guillaume Benneman (d. 1811)
1786–87 · Oak veneered with tulipwood, kingwood, holly partly stained green, ebony, and mahogany; brèche d'Alep marble (not original); modern leather; gilt-bronze mounts
Cleared · Public Domain
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Secretary
Martin Carlin (d. 1785)
ca. 1781–85 · Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, ebonized holly, and other marquetry wood; brass; green-colored metal; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top. Soft paste porcelain plaques from the Sèvres Manufactory.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Secretary-bookcase
Robert Fisher (d. 1837)
1825–35 · Ebonized mahogany, mahogany, mahogany veneer, gilding, bronzing, stamped brass ornaments, and glass (secondary woods: pine, poplar, cherry)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fall-front Secretary
Unrecorded maker
1833–ca. 1841 · Mahogany veneer, mahogany, ebonized wood, pine, poplar, cherry, white oak, brass, leather, mirror glass
Cleared · Public Domain
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Secretary
John and Joseph W. Meeks (d. 1859)
1836–50 · Rosewood, satinwood, poplar, pine, walnut
Cleared · Public Domain
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Secretary from the Jay Gould House, New York City
Herter Brothers (d. 1906)
1882 · Ebonized cherry, mahogany, cedar, and brass
Cleared · Public Domain
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