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 (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White” — 62 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:40 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 (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 fragment (karaori) 唐織

Noh robe fragment (karaori) 唐織

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th century

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

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, by Unidentified

Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

Unidentified · ca. 1963

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

Noh Robe (Karaori)

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

Public domainThe Met
Chapan (robe)

Chapan (robe)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Japanese Robe, by Alfred Stevens

The Japanese Robe

Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th 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
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mary Magdalen, by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)

Saint Mary Magdalen

Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · 1350s

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Palampore

Palampore

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Bearing the Cross, by North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Christ Bearing the Cross

North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1820

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. 22 matched · 22 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. 3295138 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-28 22:40 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.