
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
dated 1881 · Lacquer and mother-of-pearl fragments
Cleared · Public Domain
liveRights 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
332 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
344 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 467 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
dated 1881 · Lacquer and mother-of-pearl fragments
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bird and Willow in Snow
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Album leaf; ink, color, and lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bonsai
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Drum for Gagaku Dance
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Grasshopper on Gourd Vine
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Peonies
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Plum Branch with Oil Lamp
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Sencha Tea Set
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Stack of Rice and Dragonflies
Shibata Zeshin (d. 1891)
1882 · Lacquer on paper
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.
Questions upon Various Subjects connected with Architecture
Institute of British Architects
19th century
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.
Saraswati, Goddess of Learning and Music
Y. G. Srimati (d. 2007)
1947–48 · Watercolor on paper
In copyright
live1. 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.