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. 13 shown for “Inrō with Ema (Shinto Shrine Votive Plaque) of Eight Fan Shapes and Framed Pictures” — 41 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:08 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 Ema (Shinto Shrine Votive Plaque) of Eight Fan Shapes and Framed Pictures

Inrō with Ema (Shinto Shrine Votive Plaque) of Eight Fan Shapes and Framed Pictures

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

Public domainThe Met
Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Votive Tabernacle Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 8

Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 8

Artist not stated in the record · 1908-1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

shrine, votive with figure of four-armed Ganesha

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Two Frames, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Designs for Two Frames

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine, by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine

Taizan Yohei · 1800-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff box

Snuff box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Standing Frame Intended for a Picture with a Representation of the Virgin

Design for a Standing Frame Intended for a Picture with a Representation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Numazu Evening, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Numazu Evening, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria, by Friedrich von Schmidt, German, 1825 - 1891

Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria

Friedrich von Schmidt, German, 1825 - 1891 · ca. 1880

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3132090 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-28 08:08 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.