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 Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:27 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 Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemum and Autumn Grasses

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Hagi, Chrysanthemum and Autumn Grasses

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

Public domainThe Met
Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Stand with Autumn Grasses and Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy, by Nomura Kyūkoku

Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy

Nomura Kyūkoku · active first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine

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

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)

Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
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
Inrō with Autumn Ivy, by Koma Kyūhaku VI

Inrō with Autumn Ivy

Koma Kyūhaku VI · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Rabbit in the Moon and Autumn Grasses, by Kyūkoku

Inrō with Rabbit in the Moon and Autumn Grasses

Kyūkoku · first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Insects beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

Case (Inrō) with Design of Insects beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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
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. 65 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 19:27 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.