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. 15 shown for “Nakayama Komin” — 31 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:27 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Weeping Willow and Cherry Blossoms, by Nakayama Komin

Case (Inrō) with Design of Weeping Willow and Cherry Blossoms

Nakayama Komin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Deparia japonica (Thunb.) M. Kato

Deparia japonica (Thunb.) M. Kato

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Oct 1953

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Episodes from the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari), by Nakayama Komin

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Episodes from the Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)

Nakayama Komin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Scabiosa ochroleuca L.

Scabiosa ochroleuca L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune Fording a River, by Nakayama Komin

Case (Inrō) with Design of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune Fording a River

Nakayama Komin · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Odontites vulgaris Moench

Odontites vulgaris Moench

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scabiosa ochroleuca L.

Scabiosa ochroleuca L.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Sep 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trifolium campestre Schreb.

Trifolium campestre Schreb.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1924 to 6 Jul 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nephrolepis x hippocrepicis Miyam.

Nephrolepis x hippocrepicis Miyam.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Dendrobium Judith Nakayama

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dendrobium Judith Nakayama 'H & R Supreme'

Dendrobium Judith Nakayama 'H & R Supreme'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fraxinus pubinervis Blume

Fraxinus pubinervis Blume

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1910

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28 matched · 28 examined · 3 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 03:27 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.