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 Dragon among Clouds and Waves with Birds in Flight” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:00 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 Dragon among Clouds and Waves with Birds in Flight

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Clouds and Waves with Birds in Flight

Artist not stated in the record · 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 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 Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Clouds and Waves

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Swirling Clouds, by Hogen Eisen

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Swirling Clouds

Hogen Eisen · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Leaves on Conventionalized Waves

Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Leaves on Conventionalized Waves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

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
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragons among Clouds

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragons among Clouds

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

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon on Background of Clouds and Waves

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon on Background of Clouds and Waves

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

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Swirling Clouds

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Swirling Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
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
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. 80 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 11:00 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.