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 “Inkstone with Bamboo Design” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:28 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.
Inkstone with Bamboo Design

Inkstone with Bamboo Design

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Scribe Set

Scribe Set

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”, by Zhang Xihuang

Brush holder with scene of “Ode to the Pavilion of the Inebriated Old Man”

Zhang Xihuang · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Heavenly Bamboo Motif

Heavenly Bamboo Motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse), by Toyōsai (1772–1845)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flying Cuckoo in Flight above Pines (obverse); Bonito (Fish) on Bamboo Leaves (reverse)

Toyōsai (1772–1845) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Bamboo Chair and Table

Design for Bamboo Chair and Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1794–1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bamboo vase with flowering cherry blossoms, by Worcester factory

Bamboo vase with flowering cherry blossoms

Worcester factory · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Reed Brushes and Bamboo Leaves

Reed Brushes and Bamboo Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot with double bamboo body, by Worcester factory

Teapot with double bamboo body

Worcester factory · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Teapot

Teapot

Artist not stated in the record · 1865–1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teapot with double bamboo body, by Worcester factory

Teapot with double bamboo body

Worcester factory · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo

Bamboo

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Bamboo Grove, by Yūtokusai Gyokkei

Inrō with Bamboo Grove

Yūtokusai Gyokkei · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Craftsmen

Designs for Craftsmen

Artist not stated in the record · 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inkstone with Box with Bamboo after Zheng Xie (1693–1765)

Inkstone with Box with Bamboo after Zheng Xie (1693–1765)

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably for Conservatory/Music Room or Perhaps Dining Room, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably for Conservatory/Music Room or Perhaps Dining Room

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Traveling tea set, by Christopher Dresser

Traveling tea set

Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with tiger and bamboo, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Plate with tiger and bamboo

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo Motif

Bamboo Motif

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Horse and Autumn Grasses, by Shibata Zeshin

Case (Inrō) with Design of Horse and Autumn Grasses

Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-cut (Nijū-giri) Flower Container (Hanaire), named Cool Summer Morning (Shinryō), by Kōgetsu Sōgan

Double-cut (Nijū-giri) Flower Container (Hanaire), named Cool Summer Morning (Shinryō)

Kōgetsu Sōgan · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Botanical Sketches of Bamboo, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Botanical Sketches of Bamboo, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1865

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. 200 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 291554 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 2026-08-29 12:28 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.