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 Noh Masks” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:20 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 Noh Masks

Inrō with Noh Masks

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

Public domainThe Met
Mask for Noh performance

Mask for Noh performance

Artist not stated in the record · 1333-1573

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Cranes and Pines, by Koma Kyūhaku V

Inrō with Cranes and Pines

Koma Kyūhaku V · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh mask, ko-omote type, by Yukan

Noh mask, ko-omote type

Yukan · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Leaves on Conventionalized Waves

Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Leaves on Conventionalized Waves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Mask with Red Sun above Pine Trees (obverse); Props for a Noh Play (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Mask with Red Sun above Pine Trees (obverse); Props for a Noh Play (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Momotarō and Dog on the way to the Island of the Devils (obverse); Monkey with Pheasant (reverse), by Kogyoku Tokayo

Case (Inrō) with Design of Momotarō and Dog on the way to the Island of the Devils (obverse); Monkey with Pheasant (reverse)

Kogyoku Tokayo · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basketry Inrō

Basketry Inrō

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Box with fitted cover

Box with fitted cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Netsuke

Netsuke

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chūjō Noh Mask, by Genkyu Michinaga

Chūjō Noh Mask

Genkyu Michinaga · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織

Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Mask (Menpō) with Mail Gorget

Half Mask (Menpō) with Mail Gorget

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Full Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget and Mail Hood

Full Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget and Mail Hood

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Gas mask with filter canister worn at demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri

Gas mask with filter canister worn at demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri

Artist not stated in the record · 2014

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Full Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget and Mail Head Covering

Full Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget and Mail Head Covering

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1615–1868

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 90 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. 251971 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 05:20 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.