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 “Large Dish with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts” — 50 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:03 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.
Large Dish with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts

Large Dish with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts

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

Public domainThe Met
Peonies and Blossoms

Peonies and Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Dish (Shakuzara) with Cherry Blossoms and Fence

Large Dish (Shakuzara) with Cherry Blossoms and Fence

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1720s

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, cherries and blossoms motif

Bouquet holder, cherries and blossoms motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains

Dish with Cherry Blossoms and Textile Curtains

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

Public domainThe Met
A Bouquet of Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

A Bouquet of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Cherry Blossom Rafts

Dish with Cherry Blossom Rafts

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1720

Public domainThe Met
A Bouquet of Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

A Bouquet of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flowering Orchard, by Vincent van Gogh

The Flowering Orchard

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Flower Study, Peonies

Flower Study, Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto, by Studio of Kano Sadanobu

Amusements at Higashiyama in Kyoto

Studio of Kano Sadanobu · early 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Scenic

Scenic

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion, by Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿 · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hartford./ Connecticut./ JACKSONS WARRANTED, by Job & John Jackson

Hartford./ Connecticut./ JACKSONS WARRANTED

Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Study of Pale Pink Peonies, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Pale Pink Peonies

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[University Hall, Harvard College], by Job & John Jackson

[University Hall, Harvard College]

Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand for a Qur'an Manuscript, by Zain(?) Hasan Sulaiman Isfahani

Stand for a Qur'an Manuscript

Zain(?) Hasan Sulaiman Isfahani · dated 761 AH/1360 CE

Public domainThe Met
Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Peony Stalk with Blossoms

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Peonies, by Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929

Study of Peonies

Sophia L. Crownfield, American, 1862–1929 · early 20th century

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1534485 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-27 17:03 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.