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. 23 shown for “Noh Costume (Atsuita) with Clouds and Hexagons” — 51 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:17 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.
Noh Costume (Atsuita) with Clouds and Hexagons

Noh Costume (Atsuita) with Clouds and Hexagons

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Atsuita) with Cloud-Shaped Gongs and “Chinese Flowers”

Noh Robe (Atsuita) with Cloud-Shaped Gongs and “Chinese Flowers”

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Atsuita) with Young Pines, Cherry Blossoms, and Dandelions

Noh Robe (Atsuita) with Young Pines, Cherry Blossoms, and Dandelions

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling Design with Fretwork Balcony and Open Sky, possibly for Conservatory/ Music Room, or Dining Room, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Ceiling Design with Fretwork Balcony and Open Sky, possibly for Conservatory/ Music Room, or Dining Room

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White

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

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Tortoise Shell Pattern and Crane Lozenges

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Tortoise Shell Pattern and Crane Lozenges

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

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Costume (Karaori) with Court Carriages, Cherry Blossoms, and Dandelions

Noh Costume (Karaori) with Court Carriages, Cherry Blossoms, and Dandelions

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Summer Robe (Katabira) with Seasonal Landscapes and Scenes from The Tale of Genji

Summer Robe (Katabira) with Seasonal Landscapes and Scenes from The Tale of Genji

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the18th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece

Piece

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

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Portrait of Rup Singh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Govardhan

"Portrait of Rup Singh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan · verso: ca. 1615–20; recto: ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1533539 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 17:17 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.