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 “Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Autumn Grasses” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:33 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.

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Autumn Grasses

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Autumn Grasses

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Islands

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Islands

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

Public domainThe Met
Two Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Chrysanthemums, Clouds, and Bamboo

Two Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Chrysanthemums, Clouds, and Bamboo

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

Public domainThe Met
Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Pattern of Grapevine and Fence

Pieces from a Robe (Kosode) with Pattern of Grapevine and Fence

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

Public domainThe Met
Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy, by Nomura Kyūkoku

Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy

Nomura Kyūkoku · active first half of the19th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers

Robe (kosode) with landscape and seasonal flowers

Artist not stated in the record · mid-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
Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses, by Hishikawa Moronobu

Lovers Beside Flowering Autumn Grasses

Hishikawa Moronobu · 1680s

Public domainThe Met
Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Maple Leaves, Curtain, and Large Drum

Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Maple Leaves, Curtain, and Large Drum

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Pattern of Maple Leaves

Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Pattern of Maple Leaves

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

Public domainThe Met
Figure of a Standing Beauty

Figure of a Standing Beauty

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670–90

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. 56 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 2026-08-29 00:33 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.