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. 22 shown for “Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:01 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 Chrysanthemums

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums

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

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums Beneath Bamboo Blinds

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums Beneath Bamboo Blinds

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums by a Stream

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums by a Stream

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums behind Bamboo Blind (Sudare) (obverse); Brocade Pattern (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums behind Bamboo Blind (Sudare) (obverse); Brocade Pattern (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Salt Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Scattered Chrysanthemums (Kikumon)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Scattered Chrysanthemums (Kikumon)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case

Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–71

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Mustard Spoon

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Fork

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Spray of Chrysanthemums

Case (Inrō) with Design of Spray of Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Knife, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Luncheon Knife

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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 Flowering Chrysanthemums with Brocade Borders

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Chrysanthemums with Brocade Borders

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th 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. 2466 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. 2900659 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 08:01 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.