
Rectangular tray with peonies and birds
Unrecorded maker
16th century · Carved black lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
liveRights 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
159 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
293 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Rectangular tray with peonies and birds
Unrecorded maker
16th century · Carved black lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Parody of Murasaki, from "Lavender" (Wakamurasaki), chapter 5 of the Tale of Genji
Kawamata Tsuneyuki (d. 1741)
18th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
''‘Lady of the Evening Faces’ (Yūgao): Yazama’s Wife Orie (Yazama-shi no shitsu Orie),” from the series Scenes amid Genji Clouds Matched with Ukiyo-e Pictures (Genji-gumo ukiyo e-awase)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (d. 1861)
1845–46 · Woodblock ōban print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Song Sparrow, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter
1888 · Commercial color lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Sparrows Flying
Watanabe Seitei (d. 1918)
ca. 1887 · Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo 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.
Illustrated London Almanack
Samuel John Carter (d. 1892)
1871–75 · Illustrations: wood engravings and color lithographs
In copyright
liveNo 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.
Sparrow-hawk Flying by the Window (Sperwer vliegt langs het raam)
Charles Donker
ca. 1969 · Etching; second state of two
In copyright
live1. 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.