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 “Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Buttons

Buttons

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Design with Seaweed and Shells

Ornament Design with Seaweed and Shells

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Design with Coral, Seaweed, and Shells

Ornamental Design with Coral, Seaweed, and Shells

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Flowers

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Decoration Based on a Poem from the Shinkokinshū, by Kōami Chōjū

Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Decoration Based on a Poem from the Shinkokinshū

Kōami Chōjū · ca. 1633

Public domainThe Met
Box for personal accessories (tebako)

Box for personal accessories (tebako)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play, by Jean Georges (or George)

Snuffbox with six scenes of putti at play

Jean Georges (or George) · ca. 1761–62

Public domainThe Met
Water Nymph and Horse, by Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926

Water Nymph and Horse

Whiting Manufacturing Company, 1866 – 1926 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Mathieu Coiny fils

Snuffbox

Mathieu Coiny fils · 1759–60

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Frame

Project for a Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of scallop-shell dishes, by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

Pair of scallop-shell dishes

Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers · 1771–73

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Vertical Friezes or Pilasters

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Jean Frémin

Snuffbox

Jean Frémin · 1756–57

Public domainThe Met
Oyster Shell

Oyster Shell

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox, by Barnabé Sageret

Snuffbox

Barnabé Sageret · 1757–58

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th 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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1591638 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 2026-08-27 20:00 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.