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. 22 shown for “Inrō with floating fans” — 64 records examined, 30 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 floating fans

Inrō with floating fans

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

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

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

Inrō with Inrō and Fan

Koma Kyūhaku V · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Inro

Inro

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Fans and Plum Branch

Case (Inrō) with Design of Fans and Plum Branch

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
Case (Inrō) with Design of Curtains of State and a Woman's Fan, by Koma Kōryū

Case (Inrō) with Design of Curtains of State and a Woman's Fan

Koma Kōryū · late 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 300–100 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Kyōgen Dancer with Quiver from “The Monkey Skin Quiver” (obverse); Dancer with Fan and Sword (reverse)

Inrō with Kyōgen Dancer with Quiver from “The Monkey Skin Quiver” (obverse); Dancer with Fan and Sword (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Decorated Fans

Decorated Fans

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Dancer's Bells and Fans with Plum Blossoms, Pines and Grass

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dancer's Bells and Fans with Plum Blossoms, Pines and Grass

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

Public domainThe Met
Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Object from the Noh drama "Hachinoki"

Case (Inrō) with Object from the Noh drama "Hachinoki"

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
Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Dancer with Okina Mask (obverse); Noh Dancer with Fan (reverse)

Case (Inrō) with Design of Noh Dancer with Okina Mask (obverse); Noh Dancer with Fan (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan and case

Brisé fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of Commander's Baton and Other Military Objects

Case (Inrō) with Design of Commander's Baton and Other Military Objects

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 47 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. 255805 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 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.