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 “Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:34 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.

Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)

Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Flowers, by Eugène Delacroix

Basket of Flowers

Eugène Delacroix · 1848–49

Public domainThe Met
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse), by Kafu Mochikaze

Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Woman with Flower Basket of Plum Blossoms (obverse); Four Large Characters (reverse)

Kafu Mochikaze · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Louis XV Room, by Jean-François Roumier

The Louis XV Room

Jean-François Roumier · ca. 1720–25, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Heron in Flight and Flowering Plant (obverse); Hawk Attacking a Crane (reverse), by Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Heron in Flight and Flowering Plant (obverse); Hawk Attacking a Crane (reverse)

Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles), by Painter of Bari 5981

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Painter of Bari 5981 · ca. 325–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Autumn Flowers in a Bamboo Basket, by Yosa Buson

Autumn Flowers in a Bamboo Basket

Yosa Buson · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of River in Spring with Flowering Cherry Trees (obverse); River in Autumn with Maple Leaves (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of River in Spring with Flowering Cherry Trees (obverse); River in Autumn with Maple Leaves (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Cherry Trees Beside Winding River (obverse); Maple Trees in Autumn (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Cherry Trees Beside Winding River (obverse); Maple Trees in Autumn (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 26 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. 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 13:34 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.