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 “Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers” — 21 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:02 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.

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Round Wooden Incense Container (Kōgō) with Sen no Rikyū’s Signature

Round Wooden Incense Container (Kōgō) with Sen no Rikyū’s Signature

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Container (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Clamshell, with Cranes (exterior) and Tortoise Motifs (interior), by Eiraku Hozen

Incense Container (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Clamshell, with Cranes (exterior) and Tortoise Motifs (interior)

Eiraku Hozen · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Autumn Grasses

Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Autumn Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kōbako) in the Shape of Three Overlapping Jars, by Barthélémy Paviet

Incense Box (Kōbako) in the Shape of Three Overlapping Jars

Barthélémy Paviet · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kōgō) with Camellias

Incense Box (Kōgō) with Camellias

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Iris and Bridge (Yatsuhashi), by Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704)

Incense Box (Kogo) with Design of Iris and Bridge (Yatsuhashi)

Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kōgō) with Cartwheels Submerged in Water

Incense Box (Kōgō) with Cartwheels Submerged in Water

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Incense Box (Kōgō) with Tree Peonies

Covered Incense Box (Kōgō) with Tree Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kōgō) with Interlinked Circles (Shippō) Pattern

Incense Box (Kōgō) with Interlinked Circles (Shippō) Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Plum Blossom

Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Plum Blossom

Artist not stated in the record · first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines

Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 21 matched · 21 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. 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 19:02 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.