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
666 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
277 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 5,018 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Band with Vine Scroll
Unrecorded maker
4th–6th century · Tapestry weave in purple wool (dyed with indigotin-containing dye and madder) and undyed linen on plain-weave ground of undyed linen; details in flying shuttle with undyed linen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fragment of a Tabula (Square) with Birds and Pomegranates in a Vine Scroll
Unrecorded maker
5th–7th century · Wool, linen; tapestry weave
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fragment from a Talismanic Scroll
Unrecorded maker
11th–12th century · Ink on paper; printed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Scroll Cover with Birds and Flowers
Unrecorded maker
12th century · Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Textile Fragment with Ogival Pattern
Unrecorded maker
14th century · Silk; lampas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Textile with Foliated Ornament and Eagle's Head
Unrecorded maker
14th century · Silk, metal thread
Cleared · Public Domain
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Textile with Foliated Ornament and Eagle's Head
Unrecorded maker
14th century · Silk, metal thread
Cleared · Public Domain
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Textile with Foliated Scrolls
Unrecorded maker
13th–14th century · Cotton, plain weave; block-printed, mordant dyed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Vertical pendant with boys holding a lotus scroll
Unrecorded maker
13th–14th century · Complex gauze silk with supplementary silk and metal thread weft patterning
Cleared · Public Domain
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Textile with Foliated Scroll and Pomegranate Motives
Unrecorded maker
15th century · Velvet
Cleared · Public Domain
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Five pink flowers with foliated tendrils
Morris & Company
last quarter 19th century · Linen embroidered with silk, in non-original frame
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.
Textile Design with Flower-Vine Border
Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Gouache
In copyright
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