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. 17 shown for “Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:29 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.
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Kin-chaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Kinchaku (purse) with netsuke and ojime on chord

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

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
Toad

Toad

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 16th century

Public domainThe Met
netsuke

netsuke

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of sandals

Pair of sandals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep

Pair of sandals from the Burial of Amenhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sandals

Sandals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos"), by Pacetti, Vincenzo

Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ("Hope Dionysos")

Pacetti, Vincenzo · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sandals

Sandals

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Marble statue of an old woman

Marble statue of an old woman

Artist not stated in the record · 14–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th 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. 379 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3968329 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 16:29 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.