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 with gardenia, plum blossoms, and finches” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:36 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.

Box with gardenia, plum blossoms, and finches

Box with gardenia, plum blossoms, and finches

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

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree, by Hara Yōyūsai

Inrō with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree

Hara Yōyūsai · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Bird on a Blossoming Plum Tree, by Koma Yasutada

Inrō with Bird on a Blossoming Plum Tree

Koma Yasutada · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters

Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Reticulated Tiered Box with Pine Needles, Plum Blossoms, and Chrysanthemums

Reticulated Tiered Box with Pine Needles, Plum Blossoms, and Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the18th century

Public domainThe Met
Poems about Plum Blossoms, from the “Sekido-bon Version of Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern”, by Fujiwara no Yukinari

Poems about Plum Blossoms, from the “Sekido-bon Version of Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern”

Fujiwara no Yukinari · mid- to late 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse), by Kafu Mochikaze

Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse)

Kafu Mochikaze · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Writing Box with Warbler in Plum Tree

Writing Box with Warbler in Plum Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Set of Five Writing Boxes with Japanese Globeflowers, Plum Blossoms, and Interlaced Roundels

Set of Five Writing Boxes with Japanese Globeflowers, Plum Blossoms, and Interlaced Roundels

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

Public domainThe Met
The Brioche, by Edouard Manet

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Box with plum blossoms and birds

Box with plum blossoms and birds

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Poems about Cherry Blossoms, one of the “Murasame Fragments” (Murasame-gire), by Nijō Tameyo

Poems about Cherry Blossoms, one of the “Murasame Fragments” (Murasame-gire)

Nijō Tameyo · early 14th 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. 51 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:36 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.