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
618 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
361 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 26,399 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Quilt
Unrecorded maker
central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century · Central panel and outer border: silk, embroidered with silk and gilt-paper-wrapped thread; inner border: silk damask
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Wholecloth whitework quilt
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1815 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Quilt, Double X pattern
R. M. (d. 9999)
1849 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Quilt, Presentation pattern
Mary Hergenroder Simon (d. 1877)
ca. 1849 · Cotton and silk velvet
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Quilt, pieced
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1850 · Cotton
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Woman’s Rights Quilt
Emma Civey Stahl
ca. 1875 · Cotton
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.
Doll Quilt, Chimney Sweep pattern
Ella Mygatt Whittlesey (d. 1945)
1852 · Cotton
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.
Quilt, Birds in Air pattern
Annie E. Freshour Schaeffer (d. 1928)
before 1891 · Cotton
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.
Quilt, Broken Dishes pattern
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1930 · Cotton
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.
Rooster Quilt
Mary Clara Milligan Kindler Moore (d. 1978)
1932–33 · Cotton
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.
Hawaiian Quilt, Lei Mamo pattern
Unknown
ca. 1930 · Cotton
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.
Street Story Quilt
Faith Ringgold (d. 2024)
1985 · Cotton canvas, acrylic paint, ink marker, dyed and printed cotton, and sequins, sewn to a cotton flannel backing
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.