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 “Piece from a Kosode with Crane and Chrysanthemums” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:28 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.
Piece from a Kosode with Crane and Chrysanthemums

Piece from a Kosode with Crane and Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum crane

Chrysanthemum crane

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums

Jar (Tsubo) with Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Letter box

Letter box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795), by Unidentified artist

Portrait of Yun Dongseom (1710–1795)

Unidentified artist · ca. 1790–1805

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Coffeepot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Box decorated with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Teapot from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Waves

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Waves

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Sugar Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Kettle on Stand from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Butterfly

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Grasses and Cranes

Grasses and Cranes

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Fragment

Kosode Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Japanese Arisaka Rifle with Bayonet

Japanese Arisaka Rifle with Bayonet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Waste Bowl from Chrysanthemum Tea Set

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · 1891–1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Butter Knives

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · 1880–91

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kosode Fragment

Kosode Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Pair of Chrysanthemum Pattern Ladles

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums

Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop, by Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888

Chrysanthemum Pattern Crumb Scoop

Charles T. Grosjean, American, d. 1888 · ca. 1880

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. 115 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. 2938186 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-03 00:28 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.