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 “Folding Case with Characters for Longevity (Shou and Kao)” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 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.
Folding Case with Characters for Longevity (Shou and Kao)

Folding Case with Characters for Longevity (Shou and Kao)

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

Public domainThe Met
Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set

Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Wire frame, half sphere on square with folding stand

Wire frame, half sphere on square with folding stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola)

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair: with earlier parts)

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Books and Scholars' Possessions, by Unidentified artist

Books and Scholars' Possessions

Unidentified artist · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
The elevation of a case for a vestry

The elevation of a case for a vestry

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity", by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"

Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Case for chaplain kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Case for chaplain kit used by Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley

Artist not stated in the record · 1939-1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with characters for longevity and health (shou kang)

Dish with characters for longevity and health (shou kang)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
German leather stamp case

German leather stamp case

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Needle case

Needle case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity

Inrō with Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Horn and Silver Folding Spoon with Leather Case

Horn and Silver Folding Spoon with Leather Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Sewing case

Sewing case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1839

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Folding fan and case

Folding fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case and eyeglasses

Case and eyeglasses

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–1850

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. 103 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1572592 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-29 02:23 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.