Skip to content
OpenPlate

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

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

Your defaults

United States, editorial use, 10,000 reach.

Change on the terms page

1 of 2 providers answered live. 128 matching records exist across the two collections.

Results for "Spear"12 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Spear Thrower by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Spear Thrower

Unrecorded maker

200 BCE–200 CE · Arms and Armor, bone, hematite, cotton thread, sinew

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear by Hendrick Goltzius, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Standing Officer Holding a Boar's Spear

Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)

1586 · Drawing, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk with traces of white opaque watercolor over black chalk, on paper; traces of transfer

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Parade Spear by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Parade Spear

Unrecorded maker

c. 1570–1600 · Arms and Armor, steel, etched; brass lugs; hexagonal wood haft with leather straps; woolen tassel

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Thumb Rest of a Spear Thrower by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Thumb Rest of a Spear Thrower

Unrecorded maker

600–1000 · Tools and Equipment, Bone

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Spear by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Spear

Unrecorded maker

before 1922 · Arms and Armor, Point: metal and brass ferrule; handle: wood; sheath: wood

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear by Henry Fuseli, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear

Henry Fuseli (d. 1825)

1776 · Drawing, pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Fragment of a Spear (eng'erempe or eremet) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of a Spear (eng'erempe or eremet)

Unrecorded maker

1900s · Arms and Armor, iron and wood

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Barbed Spear by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Barbed Spear

Unrecorded maker

before 1922 · Arms and Armor, Metal

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Young Woman with a Spear by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman with a Spear

Unrecorded maker

c. 50–200 CE · Ivory, ivory

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Red-Figure Eye Cup: Warriors (A), Musician and Youths (B) by Psiax, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Red-Figure Eye Cup: Warriors (A), Musician and Youths (B)

Psiax

c. 520 BCE · Ceramic, ceramic

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Statuette of a Young Spearman by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Statuette of a Young Spearman

Unrecorded maker

late 500s BCE · Sculpture, Bronze

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar
Roundels with King Spearing Lion by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Roundels with King Spearing Lion

Unrecorded maker

prior to 1971 · Textile, Silk: lampas weave

Cleared · CC0

live
Cleveland Museum of ArtSimilar

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.