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. 13 shown for “Pail‑shaped freshwater jar (Onioke mizusashi)” — 20 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:21 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.
Pail‑shaped freshwater jar (Onioke mizusashi)

Pail‑shaped freshwater jar (Onioke mizusashi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Freshwater jar in the shape of a bucket with Mishima inlay

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar

Karatsu ware ewer or freshwater jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop, by False seal of Chojiro

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown Raku ware workshop

False seal of Chojiro · late 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar, unknown workshop

Tea ceremony water jar, unknown workshop

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Karatsu ware tea ceremony water jar, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th-early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar, by Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854)

Tea ceremony water jar

Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar

Tea ceremony water jar

Artist not stated in the record · 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Tea-ceremony water jar (mizusashi) with design of plum branches, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1750-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds, by Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

Tea ceremony water jar with design of Gion Festival halberds

Style of Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77) · 18th 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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 12:21 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.