Rights 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
243 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
392 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,208 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Quilt
Unrecorded maker
central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century · Central panel and outer border: silk, embroidered with silk and gilt-paper-wrapped thread; inner border: silk damask
Cleared · Public Domain
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Crazy Quilt
Louisa Joiner (d. 1911)
c. 1887–1900 · Textile, silk, ribbons, lace, velvet, embroidered, heat transfer
Cleared · CC0
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Wholecloth quilt
Unrecorded maker
1747 · Silk and wool
Cleared · Public Domain
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Embroidered quilt with pomegranates and tulips
Unrecorded maker
1600s-1700s · Embroidery, plain weave: linen; embroidery, running stitch: silk
Cleared · CC0
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Quilt
Unrecorded maker
1820–50 · Cotton with wool crewel embroidery
Cleared · Public Domain
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Kantha (Ceremonial Quilt)
Unrecorded maker
1800s · Embroidery, embroidery: cotton thread on cotton tabby ground
Cleared · CC0
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Cat quilt
Unknown
ca. 1850 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quilted cap with star-patterned silk
Unrecorded maker
1000s · Textile, lampas: silk
Cleared · CC0
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Quilt, pieced
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1850 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
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Cap
Unrecorded maker
1300s · Textile, lampas, quilted: silk
Cleared · CC0
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Quilt, pieced
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1850 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
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Quilt
Unrecorded maker
c. 1880 (?) · Textile, cotton, piecework
Cleared · CC0
live1. Pin the work
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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
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