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 Insects beside Flowering Autumn Grasses” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:22 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 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
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Autumn and Winter: Eight Muses in Pairs set in Octagons., by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Autumn and Winter: Eight Muses in Pairs set in Octagons.

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō ) with Design of a Gourd Vine, by Koma Yasutada

Case (Inrō ) with Design of a Gourd Vine

Koma Yasutada · 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 Grapevine

Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine

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

Public domainThe Met
The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Sun, the Hours, and the Seasons, for Palazzo Gessi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dewdrops and Insects on Autumn Grasses in Basket, by Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dewdrops and Insects on Autumn Grasses in Basket

Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Project for Central Tondo with Apollo, Autumn and Winter

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies, by Koma Yasutada

Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies

Koma Yasutada · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a lateral panel of a coach

Decoration of a lateral panel of a coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–75

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
Hibiscus, maple and autumn wheat grass

Hibiscus, maple and autumn wheat grass

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses, by Hishikawa Moronobu

Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

Hishikawa Moronobu · 1680s

Public domainThe Met
Abstract autumn grass motif

Abstract autumn grass motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Ceiling and the Decoration of a Short Wall Illustrating the Seasons

Design for a Painted Ceiling and the Decoration of a Short Wall Illustrating the Seasons

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Autumn Ivy, by Koma Kyūhaku VI

Inrō with Autumn Ivy

Koma Kyūhaku VI · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Network of Grasses

Network of Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Design for a Door Case, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Door Case

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
A Window Case

A Window Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1730–1760

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. 59 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. 3422009 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 16:22 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.