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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

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

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1 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Queen Mother of the West"5 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Mirror with Deities, Chariot, and the White Tiger by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mirror with Deities, Chariot, and the White Tiger

Unrecorded maker

100–200 CE · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Pair of Bowls with Xiwangmu and Attendants by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pair of Bowls with Xiwangmu and Attendants

Unrecorded maker

1662–1722 · Ceramic, porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Bowl with Xiwangmu and Attendants by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bowl with Xiwangmu and Attendants

Unrecorded maker

1662–1722 · Ceramic, porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration

Cleared · CC0

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Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals

Unrecorded maker

300 CE · Metalwork, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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Mirror with Xiwangmu by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mirror with Xiwangmu

Unrecorded maker

c. 317–400 CE · Metalwork, bronze

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.