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 Grapevine” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine

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

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

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

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of vases

Pair of vases

Artist not stated in the record · mounts ca. 1760–70, porcelain early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Vases and a Clock Case, by Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820

Designs for Two Vases and a Clock Case

Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Tureen

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement, by David Roentgen

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement

David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Grapevine, by Nomura Choheisai

Inrō with Grapevine

Nomura Choheisai · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tureen, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Tureen

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1825–1835

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
Napkin

Napkin

Artist not stated in the record · 1680s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celestial globe with clockwork, by Gerhard Emmoser

Celestial globe with clockwork

Gerhard Emmoser · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Medicine case (inro)

Medicine case (inro)

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
A Sheet with Two Projects and Sketches

A Sheet with Two Projects and Sketches

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase astronomical regulator, by Ferdinand Berthoud

Longcase astronomical regulator

Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70

Public domainThe Met
Cape for an ecclesiastical figurine

Cape for an ecclesiastical figurine

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt buckle, by Carlo Giuliano

Belt buckle

Carlo Giuliano · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Netsuke

Netsuke

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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. 2391 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 2900848 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 08:33 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.