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. 14 shown for “Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon (or Idaten) Pursuing an Onî (Demon) on Clouds” — 42 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon (or Idaten) Pursuing an Onî (Demon) on Clouds

Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon (or Idaten) Pursuing an Onî (Demon) on Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Oni Demon

Oni Demon

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon on Clouds Pursuing Demon (Oni) Holding Sacred Gem

Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon on Clouds Pursuing Demon (Oni) Holding Sacred Gem

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tsuba

Tsuba

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medicine case (inro), by Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747)

Medicine case (inro)

Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) · late 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo and Diana Chasing the Harpies

Apollo and Diana Chasing the Harpies

Artist not stated in the record · 1632

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Mastelletta; Angel Gabriel Driving Lucifer from Heaven, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and Child in Glory, Study after Mastelletta; Angel Gabriel Driving Lucifer from Heaven, Study after Marcantonio Franceschini

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel Clock Case Design, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Mantel Clock Case Design

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask

Mask

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Mantel Clock Case Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Two Mantel Clock Case Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs", by Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650

"Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?)," Plate 5 from "Goldsmith Ornament Designs"

Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 – 1650 · ca. 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1590 – 1595

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3076868 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 10:43 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.