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 Chōryō and Kōsekikō with Plants, Waves and Clouds” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:33 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 Chōryō and Kōsekikō with Plants, Waves and Clouds

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chōryō and Kōsekikō with Plants, Waves and Clouds

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

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Landscape Design of Sumiyoshi Shrine, by Kyūho

Case (Inrō) with Landscape Design of Sumiyoshi Shrine

Kyūho · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chōryo and Kosekiko with the Shoe and the Dragon

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chōryo and Kosekiko with the Shoe and the Dragon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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 Chōryō and Kōsekikō at Kahi Bridge in China

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chōryō and Kōsekikō at Kahi Bridge in China

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Deer and Maple Trees (obverse); Mount Fuji (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Deer and Maple Trees (obverse); Mount Fuji (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
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
Case (Inrō) with Design of Basket of Persimmons (obverse); Monkey Eating Persimmon (reverse), by Mori Sosen

Case (Inrō) with Design of Basket of Persimmons (obverse); Monkey Eating Persimmon (reverse)

Mori Sosen · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Inrō with Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Mount Fuji (obverse); Dragon in Clouds and Waves (reverse), by Gantai

Case (Inrō) with Design of Mount Fuji (obverse); Dragon in Clouds and Waves (reverse)

Gantai · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

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. 110 matched · 24 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 13:33 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.