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 “Ikeda Shōen” — 40 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:29 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Interior: A Yujo and an Attendant Heating Water

Interior: A Yujo and an Attendant Heating Water

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pine tree and autumn vine, by Tawaraya Sori I

Pine tree and autumn vine

Tawaraya Sori I · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two men returning from cherry blossom viewing, by Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)

Two men returning from cherry blossom viewing

Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two farmers ploughing and harrowing a rice field

Two farmers ploughing and harrowing a rice field

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Herdboy on a water-buffalo in a rainstorm, by Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (1754-1799)

Herdboy on a water-buffalo in a rainstorm

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (1754-1799) · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oiran, by Numata Gessai 沼田月斎 (1787-1864)

Oiran

Numata Gessai 沼田月斎 (1787-1864) · late 18th-early19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Utai no Shisho, by Numata Gessai 沼田月斎 (1787-1864)

Utai no Shisho

Numata Gessai 沼田月斎 (1787-1864) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger, by Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

Filial piety: Yang Hsiang saving his father from a tiger

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla leuconota var. omeiensis H. Ikeda & H. Ohba in H. Ohba

Potentilla leuconota var. omeiensis H. Ikeda & H. Ohba in H. Ohba

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla x polyjosephiana H. Ikeda & H. Ohba

Potentilla x polyjosephiana H. Ikeda & H. Ohba

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla peduncularis var. curta (Soják) H. Ikeda & H. Ohba

Potentilla peduncularis var. curta (Soják) H. Ikeda & H. Ohba

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1932 to Jul 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potentilla leuconota var. omeiensis H. Ikeda & H. Ohba in H. Ohba

Potentilla leuconota var. omeiensis H. Ikeda & H. Ohba in H. Ohba

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1940

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 49 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 12:29 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.