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 “Noh Robe (Happi) with Pattern of Flowers and Auspicious Symbols” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 22:49 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 Robe (Happi) with Pattern of Flowers and Auspicious Symbols

Noh Robe (Happi) with Pattern of Flowers and Auspicious Symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with a vase of flowers

Plate with a vase of flowers

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

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
Noh Robe (Karaori)

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Auspicious Noh Dance "Okina", by Toriyama Sekien

The Auspicious Noh Dance "Okina"

Toriyama Sekien · ca. 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織

Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with 'Cintamani' and Tiger-stripe Pattern

Dish with 'Cintamani' and Tiger-stripe Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tray, from a Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Noh Robe (Karaori)

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

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
Chair cover with a crane, lions, dragons, auspicious symbols and floral patterns

Chair cover with a crane, lions, dragons, auspicious symbols and floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

Public domainThe Met
Chair cover with a crane, lions, dragons, auspicious symbols and floral patterns

Chair cover with a crane, lions, dragons, auspicious symbols and floral patterns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Gardenia

Dish with Gardenia

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Buddhist monk's mantle, refashioned from karaori Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

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. 101 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. 3128521 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 22:49 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.