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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Bird on Standing on Rocks (obverse) Bird Flying above Waves (reverse)” — 14 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:23 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.

Case (Inrō) with Design of Bird on Standing on Rocks (obverse) Bird Flying above Waves (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Bird on Standing on Rocks (obverse) Bird Flying above Waves (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse), by Toyōsai (1772–1845)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse)

Toyōsai (1772–1845) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Kingfisher on Reed Stalk above Waves (obverse) Insects on Water Surface (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Kingfisher on Reed Stalk above Waves (obverse) Insects on Water Surface (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Monkeys Hanging from Trees Above Waves (obverse); Monkeys Seated on Rocks (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Monkeys Hanging from Trees Above Waves (obverse); Monkeys Seated on Rocks (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ, by Dieric Bouts

Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ

Dieric Bouts · After 1485

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Samurai Seated on Ground (obverse); Bird Flying before a Crescent Moon (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Samurai Seated on Ground (obverse); Bird Flying before a Crescent Moon (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Heron Standing on One Leg (obverse); Full Moon among Clouds (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Heron Standing on One Leg (obverse); Full Moon among Clouds (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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 13:23 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.