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 “Agano ware tea bowl” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:40 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.
Tea bowl

Tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Agano ware tea bowl

Agano ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1610-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl

Tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

Shino Tea Bowl with Bridge and Shrine, Known as “Bridge of the Gods” (Shinkyō)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Altar bowl with Tibetan inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware

Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1600-1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tenmoku tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Tenmoku tea bowl, possibly Agano ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Clog-shaped tea bowl (kutsu-gata chawan) with plum blossoms and geometric patterns

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Agano or Shodai ware bowl

Agano or Shodai ware bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teabowl and Accessories

Teabowl and Accessories

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl

Tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Red Raku Tea Bowl (Chawan), by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Red Raku Tea Bowl (Chawan)

Hon'ami Kōetsu · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl

Tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Bowl with Buddhist Assembly

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware

Tea bowl in the shape of an Ido tea bowl, Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th-mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black Raku Tea Bowl, Named “Kaedegure” (Twilight by the Maples), by Raku Chōjirō

Black Raku Tea Bowl, Named “Kaedegure” (Twilight by the Maples)

Raku Chōjirō · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop

Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl

Hagi ware tea bowl in the shape of a Korean tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with indented rim, Hagi ware

Tea bowl with indented rim, Hagi ware

Artist not stated in the record · mid 17th century

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. 120 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 33184 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-27 20:40 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.