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Rights clearance desk for images

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.

Where this page got its records

  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

  • Clevelandlive

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

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1 of 2 providers answered live. 4 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Handle in the form of a lion"4 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Lion Aquamanile by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Lion Aquamanile

Unrecorded maker

1200–1250 · Sculpture, bronze: cast, chased, and punched

Cleared · CC0

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Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Tripod Container with Dragon-Head Handle (Zhadou)

Unrecorded maker

500s · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Ritual Axe by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ritual Axe

Unrecorded maker

c. 1407–1410 · Metalwork, iron alloy with gold and silver inlay

Cleared · CC0

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Ritual Weapons by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ritual Weapons

Unrecorded maker

early 1400s · Metalwork, iron alloy with gold and silver inlay

Cleared · CC0

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1. Pin the work

Choose the record and say what you are actually going to do with it. The product re-reads the work live and stores a snapshot, so your docket records what the institution said today.

2. Read the arithmetic

Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.

3. Seal and export

Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.