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. 14 shown for “Ichinomiya Nagatsune” — 37 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:27 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.
Sword Guard (Tsuba), by Ichinomiya Nagatsune

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

Ichinomiya Nagatsune · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Ranunculus kawakamii Hayata

Ranunculus kawakamii Hayata

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Ischaemum anthephoroides (Steud.) Miq.

Ischaemum anthephoroides (Steud.) Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 21/8/94

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh.

Juncus lampocarpus Ehrh.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Sep 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Liriope minor (Maxim.) Makino

Liriope minor (Maxim.) Makino

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Calamagrostis epigeios (L.) Roth

Calamagrostis epigeios (L.) Roth

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fimbristylis sp.

Fimbristylis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.

Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl

Fimbristylis ferruginea (L.) Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polystichum sp.

Polystichum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Forsstroemia cryphaeoides Cardot

Forsstroemia cryphaeoides Cardot

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prunella vulgaris subsp. asiatica H. Hara

Prunella vulgaris subsp. asiatica H. Hara

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1952

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb.

Elaeagnus umbellata Thunb.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1957

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 35 matched · 35 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 2026-08-28 18:27 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.