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 Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:04 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 Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity

Inrō with Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk

Case (Inrō) with Design of Cicada on Tree Trunk

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with the Characters for Longevity and Good Fortune and the “Seven Lucky Treasures” on Checkerboard Ground

Inrō with the Characters for Longevity and Good Fortune and the “Seven Lucky Treasures” on Checkerboard Ground

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs

Bowl with Character for “Longevity” and Assorted Treasure Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Small Dish (Kozara) with Turnip

Small Dish (Kozara) with Turnip

Artist not stated in the record · 1620–40

Public domainThe Met
Bowl decorated with auspicious characters

Bowl decorated with auspicious characters

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Books and Scholars' Possessions, by Unidentified artist

Books and Scholars' Possessions

Unidentified artist · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish with characters for longevity and health (shou kang)

Dish with characters for longevity and health (shou kang)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Dish with character for longevity (shou)

Dish with character for longevity (shou)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Triptych of One-Column Calligraphies on Auspicious Natural Imagery, by Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)

Triptych of One-Column Calligraphies on Auspicious Natural Imagery

Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki) · 1671

Public domainThe Met
Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 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. 29 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 2026-08-29 05:04 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.