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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.

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    255 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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

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Results for "Three Cows, plate 5 from "Different Anim"12 records

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Terracotta fish-plate by Bastis Painter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta fish-plate

Bastis Painter

ca. 375–360 BCE · Terracotta

Cleared · Public Domain

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Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amulet of a rearing cobra with a Hathor-emblem head

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1080–332 BCE · Faience

Cleared · Public Domain

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Frieze with Sea Monsters by Johann Theodor de Bry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frieze with Sea Monsters

Johann Theodor de Bry (d. 1623)

1580–1600 · Engraving

Cleared · Public Domain

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Plate 13: Allegory on the Discord in France, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes" by Pieter Nolpe, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate 13: Allegory on the Discord in France, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

Pieter Nolpe (d. 1614)

1638 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Roma Mother with Children by Cornelis Visscher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roma Mother with Children

Cornelis Visscher (d. 1658)

c. 1657; this state printed 1658 or later · Etching and engraving; fourth state of five

Cleared · Public Domain

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Americanorum Rex, Guisius, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel) by François Chauveau, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Americanorum Rex, Guisius, from "Courses de Testes et de Bagues Faittes par Roy et par les Princes et Signeurs de sa Cour, en l'annee 1662" (Grand Carrousel)

François Chauveau (d. 1676)

1662–70 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Three Cows, plate 5 from "Different Animals" by Adriaen van de Velde, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three Cows, plate 5 from "Different Animals"

Adriaen van de Velde (d. 1672)

1672 · Etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Plate by Villeroy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plate

Villeroy (d. 1748)

ca. 1740–45 · Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels

Cleared · Public Domain

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Botanical plate with spray of lilies by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Botanical plate with spray of lilies

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (d. 1784)

ca. 1755 · Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Cleared · Public Domain

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Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 5 by Anonymous, French, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 5

Anonymous, French (d. 2050)

1770 or after · Brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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No 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.

Different designs with an angel at lower right seated next to a medallion containing the Holy Spirit, plate 5 from 'Recherche de plusieurs beaux morceaux d'ornemens pour seruir aux frontons des placarts plaphons et Lembris [Lambris et autres décors]', bound in "Oeuvres", Vol. I

Jean Le Pautre (d. 1682)

1661 · Etching; third state of three (Préaud)

In copyright

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No 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.

Choix, "Planche V: Bijoux: Colliers, diamants, rubis et émeraudes de taille classique"

Paul Iribe (d. 1935)

1930 · plates: photomechanical

In copyright

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