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. 15 shown for “Raku Donyu” — 36 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 17:52 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.
Teabowl, by Raku Donyu

Teabowl

Raku Donyu · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl, named "Omokage" (Memory), unknown Raku ware workshop

Tea bowl, named "Omokage" (Memory), unknown Raku ware workshop

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Teabowl, by Raku Donyu

Teabowl

Raku Donyu · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop, by Doraku

Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

Doraku · 17th or 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered incense box, by Raku Donyu

Covered incense box

Raku Donyu · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop

Tea bowl in style of Hon'ami Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl with design of flaming jewels, unknown Raku ware workshop

Tea bowl with design of flaming jewels, unknown Raku ware workshop

Artist not stated in the record · possibly 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop, by Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) · 17th century or later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl with design of seedling pines, named Okina, by Attributed to Okazaki Bunzan 岡崎文山

Tea bowl with design of seedling pines, named Okina

Attributed to Okazaki Bunzan 岡崎文山 · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Korakuen ware tea bowl with design of Mt. Fuji, by Probably by Raku Tannyu (1795-1854)

Korakuen ware tea bowl with design of Mt. Fuji

Probably by Raku Tannyu (1795-1854) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Black Raku ware tea bowl named Minogame (Mossy-tailed tortoise), by Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Black Raku ware tea bowl named Minogame (Mossy-tailed tortoise)

Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) · 1605-1637

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylindrical tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop, by Attributed by accompanying document to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Cylindrical tea bowl, unknown Raku ware workshop

Attributed by accompanying document to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hand warmer with design of vines, by Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855)

Hand warmer with design of vines

Nin'ami Dohachi 仁阿弥道八 (1783-1855) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl, copy of "Kaga Koetsu," unknown Raku ware workshop, by Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)

Tea bowl, copy of "Kaga Koetsu," unknown Raku ware workshop

Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brazier for iron kettle, by Tokuzan (died 1837)

Brazier for iron kettle

Tokuzan (died 1837) · 1814

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33 matched · 33 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 17:52 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.