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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages on Verandah beside Rocks and Trees” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:09 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 Chinese Sages on Verandah beside Rocks and Trees

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages on Verandah beside Rocks and Trees

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Seated on Verandah

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Seated on Verandah

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Playing Musical Instruments on a Verandah

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Playing Musical Instruments on a Verandah

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

Public domainThe Met
Trees on a Rock, near the Obersee, Bavaria (Germany), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Trees on a Rock, near the Obersee, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily, by Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grasshopper on Stalk of Flowering Lily

Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown) · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Men Fishing with a Rod and Net, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Men Fishing with a Rod and Net

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Doorway, Loggia, Ground Floor, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Doorway, Loggia, Ground Floor, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage Seated on Rocks beside a Tree, Exhaling His Spirit (obverse); His Spirit Walking on Air (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage Seated on Rocks beside a Tree, Exhaling His Spirit (obverse); His Spirit Walking on Air (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk

Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
A Woman with a Parasol, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

A Woman with a Parasol

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Zodiac Animals beside Chinese Sages and Scrolls

Case (Inrō) with Design of Zodiac Animals beside Chinese Sages and Scrolls

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Tiger Drinking from a River beside Rocks and Pine Tree

Inrō with Tiger Drinking from a River beside Rocks and Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chinoiserie Fantasy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Chinoiserie Fantasy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage beside a Waterfall (obverse); Tiger beside Rocks and Maple Tree (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Sage beside a Waterfall (obverse); Tiger beside Rocks and Maple Tree (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Trees and Rocks on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador, near Chimborazo, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Trees and Rocks on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador, near Chimborazo

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 16, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Pheasant on Rocks beside Flowering Azalea

Case (Inrō) with Design of Pheasant on Rocks beside Flowering Azalea

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

Public domainThe Met
Jerusalem by Moonlight, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Jerusalem by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 31, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons on a Verandah against Stylized Wave Background

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons on a Verandah against Stylized Wave Background

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

Public domainThe Met
Donkeys at Rest, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Donkeys at Rest, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 2, 1857

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. 32 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. 3293036 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 08:09 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.