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 with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:25 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.
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Viewing of Cherry Blossoms, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Viewing of Cherry Blossoms

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair), by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Corner cabinet (encoignure) (one of a pair)

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1745–49

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Book Cover: Dragons and Cherry Blossoms, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for a Book Cover: Dragons and Cherry Blossoms

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · ca. 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino

Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Brooches, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

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

Public domainThe Met
Rectangular box with cover

Rectangular box with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot (part of a service), by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot (part of a service)

Meissen Manufactory · 1723–26

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossom Viewing, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Cherry Blossom Viewing

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blossoming Cherry Trees, by Sakai Hōitsu

Blossoming Cherry Trees

Sakai Hōitsu · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Peonies and Blossoms

Peonies and Blossoms

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Blossoms and Banana Leaves

Blossoms and Banana Leaves

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Ewer (Suichū) with Cherry Blossoms and Picnic Curtain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Aristocrates Being Carried, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Aristocrates Being Carried

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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

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. 230 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3001884 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-06 00:25 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.