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
253 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
319 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 3,450 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
"Bahram Gur Exhibiting his Prowess in Wrestling at the Court of Shangul, King of India", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of Prince Alexander Bezborodko
Pierre-Charles Cior (d. 1840)
mid- to late 1700s · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in a 19th-century gilt metal frame
Cleared · CC0
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"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Unite: Charles I (obverse); Crowned Shield (reverse)
Nicholas Briot (d. 1646)
1631–32 · Coins, gold
Cleared · CC0
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"Buzurjmihr Explains the Game of Backgammon (Nard) to the Raja of Hind", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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"Kai Khusrau Enthroned Holding a Sword", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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"Nushirvan Receives Mihras, Envoy of Caesar", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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"The Nobles and Mubids Advise Khusrau Parviz about Shirin", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (d. 1020)
ca. 1300–30 · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Adoration of the Kings
Bernard van Orley (d. 1542)
1525–1535 · Wool, silk, silver, silver-gilt thread (20 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Small Portraits of the French Kings from Pharamond to Henri III, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Anonymous
1586 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Tiddy-Doll, the Great French-Gingerbread-Baker; Drawing Out a New Batch of Kings, His Man Hopping Talley, Mixing Up the Dough
James Gillray (d. 1815)
January 23, 1806 · Hand-colored etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daniel Chester French (d. 1931)
1879; cast 1906–7 · Bronze
In copyright
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