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. 12 shown for “Box for Accessories (Sumiaka-tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses” — 24 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:05 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories, by James Purdey the Elder

Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories

James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Box for Accessories (Sumiaka-tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Box for Accessories (Sumiaka-tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Autumn Grasses

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn, by Shikibu Terutada

Birds and Flowers of Summer and Autumn

Shikibu Terutada · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Grasses in Moonlight, by Shibata Zeshin

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight

Shibata Zeshin · second half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788), by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses, by Hishikawa Moronobu

Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

Hishikawa Moronobu · 1680s

Public domainThe Met
Letter Box with Design of Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Letter Box with Design of Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Scroll Box (Jikumono-bako) with Paulownia and Autumn Grasses

Scroll Box (Jikumono-bako) with Paulownia and Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Autumn Grasses

Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:05 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.