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
142 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
321 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
Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1480–1500 · Walnut and elm, partly veneered and inlaid with different woods, ivory, bone (camel?) and pewter; covered in silk velvet not original to the armchair
Cleared · Public Domain
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Seated satyr with an inkwell and a candlestick
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1530–40 · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
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Cabinet
André Charles Boulle (d. 1732)
ca. 1700 · Oak veneered with Macassar and Gabon ebony, ebonized fruitwood, burl wood, and marquetry of tortoiseshell and brass; gilt bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
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Cope
Unrecorded maker
main textile: 1720s; hood textile: mid-17th century · Main textile: silk satin, brocaded, silk and metal-wrapped thread; Hood textile: cloth-of-gold, brocaded, silk and metal-wrapped thread
Cleared · Public Domain
live![Sampler by Betsey N[esmith]. Davidson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ad/web-large/RT524.jpg)
Sampler
Betsey N[esmith]. Davidson (d. 1872)
1806 · Silk embroidery on linen
Cleared · Public Domain
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Marble-top table
Theophil Hansen (d. 1891)
ca. 1855–65 · Belgian black marble and semi-precious stones; painted pine, ebonized fruitwood; brass, gilt bronze
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.
Twenty-eighth catalogue, N. M. Friedman & Co., Makers of High Grade Portraits in Oil, Pastelle, Water Colors, Crayon, Sepia, Bromide, and Albumen, Manufacturers of Picture Frames
N. M. Friedman & Co. (d. 1999)
early 20th century · Illustrations: photomechanical process and wood engraving
In copyright
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