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. 22 shown for “Document Box (Bunko) with Design of Cherry Trees in Bloom in Yoshino” — 50 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:52 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.
Document Box (Bunko) with Design of Cherry Trees in Bloom in Yoshino

Document Box (Bunko) with Design of Cherry Trees in Bloom in Yoshino

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Nippori, Temple Gardens (Nippori, jiin no rinsen) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blossoming Cherry Trees, by Sakai Hōitsu

Blossoming Cherry Trees

Sakai Hōitsu · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by W. S. Coleman

Platter

W. S. Coleman · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

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

Public domainThe Met
Spring Festival, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Spring Festival

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Public domainThe Met
Distant View of Kinryuzan Temple from Azuma Bridge (Azuma-bashi, Kinryuzan embo) No.39 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Distant View of Kinryuzan Temple from Azuma Bridge (Azuma-bashi, Kinryuzan embo) No.39 From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino

Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
April, from series of "Social Customs...", by Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770

April, from series of "Social Customs..."

Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese, 1724 – 1770 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall

Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Flower Pavilion, Dango Hill, Sendagi (Sendagi, Dango-zaka Hana-yashiki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Flower Pavilion, Dango Hill, Sendagi (Sendagi, Dango-zaka Hana-yashiki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1856-58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

Writing Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Shinagawa from the series 53 Stations of Tokaido

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1856-58

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box (suzuribako) with Waterfall and Auspicious Characters

Writing Box (suzuribako) with Waterfall and Auspicious Characters

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
New Fuji, Meguro (meguro, Shin-Fuji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

New Fuji, Meguro (meguro, Shin-Fuji) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi

“Butterflies” (Kochō), from the Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsuyoshi · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for "June Woods", by William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905

Study for "June Woods"

William Trost Richards, American, 1833–1905 · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Fukagawa Hachiman yanabiraki from the Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · March 29, 1803

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484734 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-05 22:52 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.