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

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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "Left Arm Guard"6 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche" by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche"

Unrecorded maker

c. 1650 · Arms and Armor, steel, pierced and chiseled

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Proper Left Tasset by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Proper Left Tasset

Unrecorded maker

c. 1575 · Arms and Armor, steel with etched decorative bands and roundels

Cleared · CC0

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Left Pauldron with Guard Brace by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Left Pauldron with Guard Brace

Unrecorded maker

1801–1900 · Arms and Armor, steel with black paint

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Pair of Guardian Figures (Zuishin) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pair of Guardian Figures (Zuishin)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1560–1625 · Sculpture, Japanese cypress (hinoki) with traces of color; crystal

Cleared · CC0

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Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Leaves by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Leaves

Unrecorded maker

c. 1615–1868 · Arms and Armor, metal

Cleared · CC0

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Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Maple Leaves on River by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Maple Leaves on River

Unrecorded maker

c. 1615–1868 · Arms and Armor, iron

Cleared · CC0

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