OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:28 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Shrine, by Matthias Walbaum

Shrine

Matthias Walbaum · 1598–1600

Public domainThe Met
A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · Early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Shrine, by Jean de Touyl

Reliquary Shrine

Jean de Touyl · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine of the Virgin

Shrine of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300

Public domainThe Met
Yatsukoji Junction at Suji-chigai (Suji-chigai-uchi, Yatsukoji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yatsukoji Junction at Suji-chigai (Suji-chigai-uchi, Yatsukoji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Yatsukoji Junction at Suji-chigai (Suji-chigai-uchi, Yatsukoji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yatsukoji Junction at Suji-chigai (Suji-chigai-uchi, Yatsukoji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shrine

Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Man Holding a Shrine Containing an Image of Osiris

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Festival, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Festival

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Pilgrim's Badge of the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury

Artist not stated in the record · 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Wayside Shrine near Abtenau, Austria, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Wayside Shrine near Abtenau, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 5, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, by Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival, by Ike no Taiga

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Shrine in the Woods near Ceppo Morelli, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Shrine in the Woods near Ceppo Morelli, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 11, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Kalvarienberg Chapel, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Kalvarienberg Chapel, Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scene at a Shrine, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scene at a Shrine

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Artist not stated in the record · 595–526 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mountain Peaks and Wayside Shrine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain Peaks and Wayside Shrine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 1650 matched · 24 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2616958 matched · 40 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 19:28 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.