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 Thatched Buildings Beside River Landscape” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:21 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 Thatched Buildings Beside River Landscape

Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Buildings Beside River Landscape

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

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Building in Hilly Landscape with Trees and Waves with Nestuke of Thatched Building in a Landscape

Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Building in Hilly Landscape with Trees and Waves with Nestuke of Thatched Building in a Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Building beside Winding River in Mountain Landscape and Full Moon

Case (Inrō) with Design of Building beside Winding River in Mountain Landscape and Full Moon

Artist not stated in the record · 19th–20th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Mountain Landscape with Buildings beside Rocks

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Mountain Landscape with Buildings beside Rocks

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Farm Buildings in Fields and Mountain Landscape with Cloud Bands

Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Farm Buildings in Fields and Mountain Landscape with Cloud Bands

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Hilly Landscape with Maple and Cherry Trees beside a River

Case (Inrō) with Design of Hilly Landscape with Maple and Cherry Trees beside a River

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Buildings in Mountain Landscape

Case (Inrō) with Design of Buildings in Mountain Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Cherry Trees Beside Winding River (obverse); Maple Trees in Autumn (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Cherry Trees Beside Winding River (obverse); Maple Trees in Autumn (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 42 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 13:21 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.