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 “Kosode Robe with Roosters and Hens” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 08:01 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.
Kosode Robe with Roosters and Hens

Kosode Robe with Roosters and Hens

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Quail and Floral Decoration, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Quail and Floral Decoration

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
L'Escarpolette, by Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811

L'Escarpolette

Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811 · 1789

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Chant du Coq

Le Chant du Coq

Artist not stated in the record · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuttings from a Modelbook with a Rooster, a Hen and her Chicks, and a Rabbit

Cuttings from a Modelbook with a Rooster, a Hen and her Chicks, and a Rabbit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–50

Public domainThe Met
Rooster, by Arnold Print Works, North Adams, MA, USA

Rooster

Arnold Print Works, North Adams, MA, USA · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of twelve zodiac animals

Set of twelve zodiac animals

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
O-daiko, by Kodenji Hayashi

O-daiko

Kodenji Hayashi · ca. 1873

Public domainThe Met
Rooster's Head

Rooster's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Golden Rooster and Hen, by Unidentified artist

Golden Rooster and Hen

Unidentified artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure of a Standing Beauty

Figure of a Standing Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670–90

Public domainThe Met
Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, by Unidentified

Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

Unidentified · ca. 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, by Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪

Rooster, Hen, and Chicks

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 · late 1780s

Public domainThe Met
Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Ferns

Robe (Kosode) with Ferns

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White-Robed Guanyin, by Unidentified

White-Robed Guanyin

Unidentified · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Frieze with winged female figure and two grotesque roosters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1544

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. 98 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. 1522641 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 08:01 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.