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. 12 shown for “Inrō with the Queen Mother of the West (Seiōbo); Boy with a Peach (reverse)” — 19 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:34 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Inrō with the Queen Mother of the West (Seiōbo); Boy with a Peach (reverse)

Inrō with the Queen Mother of the West (Seiōbo); Boy with a Peach (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, by Aelbert Cuyp

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman

Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1652–53

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Street Festival (obverse); People Watching a Puppet Show (reverse), by Tatsuke Takamasu

Inrō with Street Festival (obverse); People Watching a Puppet Show (reverse)

Tatsuke Takamasu · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Queen Mother of the West, by Kano Osanobu

Queen Mother of the West

Kano Osanobu · second quarter 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Case (Inrō) with Design of a Suit of Armor (obverse); Flasks for Boys Festival (reverse), by Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704)

Case (Inrō) with Design of a Suit of Armor (obverse); Flasks for Boys Festival (reverse)

Yamada Jōkasai (1681–1704) · second half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

Public domainThe Met
Vase with Immortals Offering the Peaches of Longevity

Vase with Immortals Offering the Peaches of Longevity

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portable Icon with the Virgin Eleousa

Portable Icon with the Virgin Eleousa

Artist not stated in the record · early 1300s

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. 19 matched · 19 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:34 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.