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 Flower Roundels” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:31 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 Flower Roundels

Inrō with Flower Roundels

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Cockatoo and Magnolia, by Yamada Jōkasai

Inrō with Cockatoo and Magnolia

Yamada Jōkasai · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Boats, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Two Boats

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773?

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Stylized Flower Patterns in Interconnected Roundels

Inrō with Stylized Flower Patterns in Interconnected Roundels

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Ornament Designs with Roundels, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

Two Ornament Designs with Roundels

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1776–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Scattered Musical Instruments, Theatrical Implements, and Flowers, by Shibata Zeshin

Inrō with Scattered Musical Instruments, Theatrical Implements, and Flowers

Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Scattered Cherry Blossoms (obverse); Snow Roundels (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Scattered Cherry Blossoms (obverse); Snow Roundels (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Leafy Grapevines (obverse); Chrysanthemum Spray (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Roundel

Roundel

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Bird on a Blossoming Plum Tree, by Koma Yasutada

Inrō with Bird on a Blossoming Plum Tree

Koma Yasutada · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saya Inrō with Bamboo Grove (exterior) and Rooster with Hen (interior), by Koma Sadahide

Saya Inrō with Bamboo Grove (exterior) and Rooster with Hen (interior)

Koma Sadahide · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy, by Nomura Kyūkoku

Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy

Nomura Kyūkoku · active first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, by Tōyō

Inrō with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

Tōyō · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771

Title Page

Jean Lamour, French, 1698–1771 · 1767–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Cranes in Plum, Bamboo and Pine

Inrō with Cranes in Plum, Bamboo and Pine

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament, Roundels, and Pendants

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies, by Koma Yasutada

Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies

Koma Yasutada · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Roundels, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Roundels

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · after 1703

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. 235 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. 255468 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 00:31 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.