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 Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:59 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 with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

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

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Passengers Travelling by way of the Scenic View, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Passengers Travelling by way of the Scenic View

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with scenes of a departure

Box with scenes of a departure

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

Public domainThe Met
Bridges and Bats on Lattice

Bridges and Bats on Lattice

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tobacco box

Tobacco box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jewelry box, by P. Ben

Jewelry box

P. Ben · 1627

Public domainThe Met
Sewing box with implements

Sewing box with implements

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes, by Pierre François Drais

Snuffbox with six scenes of country pastimes

Pierre François Drais · 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Savoyards

Savoyards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox Design, by Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798

Snuffbox Design

Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798 · 1771

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
Landscape with trees, river and box, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Landscape with trees, river and box

Peale, Titian Ramsay · ca 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffbox with Pastoral Scenes

Snuffbox with Pastoral Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with trees, river and box, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Landscape with trees, river and box

Peale, Titian Ramsay · ca 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with trees, river and box, by Peale, Titian Ramsay

Landscape with trees, river and box

Peale, Titian Ramsay · ca 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea casket (part of a set)

Tea casket (part of a set)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox fragment

Bandbox fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 163 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. 1530973 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 19:59 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.