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 “Inrō with Chinese Landscape in Moonlight” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 13:36 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.
Inrō with Chinese Landscape in Moonlight

Inrō with Chinese Landscape in Moonlight

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

Public domainThe Met
Jerusalem by Moonlight, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Jerusalem by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · March 31, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape in Moonlight, by Kano Tan'yū

Landscape in Moonlight

Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Public domainThe Met
Two Evening Landscapes, by Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960

Two Evening Landscapes

Leon Dabo, American, 1868–1960 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape in Moonlight, by Kano Tan'yū

Landscape in Moonlight

Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape in Moonlight, by Kano Tan'yū

Landscape in Moonlight

Kano Tan'yū · after 1662

Public domainThe Met
Jericho and the Dead Sea by Moonlight, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Jericho and the Dead Sea by Moonlight

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese musicians, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Chinese musicians

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Castle by Moonlight, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Castle by Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Guqin (古琴 ), by Prince Lu

Guqin (古琴 )

Prince Lu · 1634

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Monk Jie

Landscape

Monk Jie · Dated 1599 (or 1659)

Public domainThe Met
Moonlight in El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel), by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Moonlight in El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 29, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling), by Daniel Preissler

Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)

Daniel Preissler · beaker ca. 1700–20; decoration ca. 1711–30

Public domainThe Met
Aletsch Glacier by Moonlight, Switzerland, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Aletsch Glacier by Moonlight, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 28, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Water Jar

Water Jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1689–1712

Public domainThe Met
Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, Ecuador, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Llamas Grazing and El Altar in Splendid Moonlight, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Song Nian

Landscape

Song Nian · dated 1898

Public domainThe Met
Niagara Moonlight, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Niagara Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table screen with landscape

Table screen with landscape

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Medicine case (inro), by Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747)

Medicine case (inro)

Ogawa Ritsuo (1663-1747) · early 18th century

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. 1120 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 7464830 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-07 13:36 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.