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 Owl and Crows in Tree” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 10:40 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 Owl and Crows in Tree

Inrō with Owl and Crows in Tree

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
inro

inro

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Crows on Tree in Moonlight

Inrō with Crows on Tree in Moonlight

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

Public domainThe Met
Owl and Figure in Landscape

Owl and Figure in Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Crows on Cherry Tree in Moonlight

Inrō with Crows on Cherry Tree in Moonlight

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

Public domainThe Met
The Fox and the Crow, Illustration for Aesop's Fables, by Victor Wilbour

The Fox and the Crow, Illustration for Aesop's Fables

Victor Wilbour · ca. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Sketch for Cover in “The World’s Almaniac”, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Sketch for Cover in “The World’s Almaniac”

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Crane Standing Beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Morning Glory and Inscription (reverse), by Hanabusa Itchō

Case (Inrō) with Design of Crane Standing Beneath Pine Tree (obverse); Morning Glory and Inscription (reverse)

Hanabusa Itchō · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Fox and the Crow, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

The Fox and the Crow

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Buddhist Angel (obverse); Pine Forest (reverse), by Tōyō

Case (Inrō) with Design of Buddhist Angel (obverse); Pine Forest (reverse)

Tōyō · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879", by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Cover for "The World’s Almaniac for 1879"

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree, by Kano Seisen’in

Case (Inrō) with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree

Kano Seisen’in · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Physician and the Hyena, by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

The Physician and the Hyena

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Three Herons Seated in Maple Tree (obverse); Three Crows in Autumn Forest (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Three Herons Seated in Maple Tree (obverse); Three Crows in Autumn Forest (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Two Magi and a Boy, plate 13 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · 1750–1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Semi-Circular Bridge (obverse); Crows in Flight Beside Pagoda (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Semi-Circular Bridge (obverse); Crows in Flight Beside Pagoda (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Ornament, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Design for Ceiling Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768 · 1740

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. 152 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. 7483208 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 10:40 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.