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
2025 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
280 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 39 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Chinese Lions, Peonies, and Tokugawa Family Crest
Kōami Chōjū (d. 1651)
1628 · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e and cut-out gold and silver foil on nashiji and maki-e ground
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing box
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1750 –1760 · Enameled copper; implements of glass, gilt copper, and enameled copper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Standish with pounce pot, wafer box, and inkwell
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1765 · Enamel on copper
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, and silver inlay on gold nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Praying Mantis
Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō) (d. 1747)
first half 18th century · Cedar wood, lacquer, gold and silver maki-e, mother-of-pearl, ceramic, bone
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box (suzuribako) with Waterfall and Auspicious Characters
Unrecorded maker
late 18th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and gold inlay on nashiji ground
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box with Design of Wild Pink by Fence
Unrecorded maker
late 18th century · Gold maki-e with inlays of ivory and mother-of-pearl on black lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Woodcutter
Hon'ami Kōetsu (d. 1637)
18th or early 19th century · Gold maki-e on black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box with Design of Wild Pink, Butterbar, and Bird
Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō) (d. 1747)
late 19th century · Colored lacquer, gold maki-e, and inlaid pewter
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Writing Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji
Unrecorded maker
20th century · Gold lacquer with raised sprinkled design
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.
Designs for Box Lids, Plate 8
Roch (d. 1830)
third quarter 18th century · Engraving
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.
Set of ten writing boxes with seasonal designs
Uematsu Hōbi (d. 1933)
early 20th century · Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold and silver application
In copyright
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