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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 Metlive

    187 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "Octagonal brush holder with plants and p"4 records

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Table clock by Bartholomew Newsam, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Table clock

Bartholomew Newsam (d. 1587)

1580–85 · Case: engraved, chased, and gilded brass; dial: silver; movement: brass and steel

Cleared · Public Domain

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Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man” by Gu Jue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”

Gu Jue (d. 1700)

late 17th century · Bamboo with hardwood rim and base

Cleared · Public Domain

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Octagonal brush holder with plants and poems by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Octagonal brush holder with plants and poems

Unrecorded maker

1826 · Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

Cleared · Public Domain

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No 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.

Ofika (hanging figure)

Mbole artist

19th–early 20th century · Wood, pigment

In copyright

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