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 “Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Phoenixes and Paulownia” — 19 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:27 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.

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Phoenixes and Paulownia

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Phoenixes and Paulownia

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

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

Public domainThe Met
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Orange Branches and Books

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Orange Branches and Books

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

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Maple Tree and River

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Maple Tree and River

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety

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

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Penglai

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Penglai

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

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Chrysanthemum and Wisteria Bouquets

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Chrysanthemum and Wisteria Bouquets

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th–first half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Oranges and Folded-Paper Butterflies

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Oranges and Folded-Paper Butterflies

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

Public domainThe Met
Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Peonies, Plum Blossoms, and Butterflies

Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Peonies, Plum Blossoms, and Butterflies

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

Public domainThe Met
Kabuki Costume: Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Design of Lioness and Cubs

Kabuki Costume: Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Design of Lioness and Cubs

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

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist Priest's Vestment (Kesa) with Phoenix

Buddhist Priest's Vestment (Kesa) with Phoenix

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Noh Costume (Nuihaku) with Phoenixes and Peonies

Noh Costume (Nuihaku) with Phoenixes and Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · second half 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. 19 matched · 19 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. 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 11:27 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.