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. 12 shown for “Noh Robe (Karaori)” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:18 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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
Noh Robe (Karaori)

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh Robe (Karaori)

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh Robe (Karaori)

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Chrysanthemums and Waves

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Chrysanthemums and Waves

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Autumn Grasses and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Court Carriages and Cherry Blossoms

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Court Carriages and Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Young Pines and Snow-Covered Bamboo on a Red Ground

Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Young Pines and Snow-Covered Bamboo on a Red Ground

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Floral-Lozenge Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cherry Blossoms and Fretwork

Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cherry Blossoms and Fretwork

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Pattern of Flowing Water, Chrysanthemums, Fishing Nets, and Waterwheels

Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Pattern of Flowing Water, Chrysanthemums, Fishing Nets, and Waterwheels

Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 106 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 19:18 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.