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 “Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:28 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.
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies

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

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Monkeys with Palanquin

Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Monkeys with Palanquin

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Black Bird with Blossoms, Butterfly, and Red Ribbon

Black Bird with Blossoms, Butterfly, and Red Ribbon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner (kōro) with Design of Grasses, Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies, by Hon'ami Kōetsu

Incense Burner (kōro) with Design of Grasses, Cherry Blossoms and Butterflies

Hon'ami Kōetsu · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Pink, Red, Blue, and Black Bird on Branch with Blossoms and Butterflies

Pink, Red, Blue, and Black Bird on Branch with Blossoms and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inrō with Butterflies and Pampas Grass

Inrō with Butterflies and Pampas Grass

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

Public domainThe Met
Small Black-and-White Bird on Rose Leaf with Blossoms and Butterflies

Small Black-and-White Bird on Rose Leaf with Blossoms and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) in the Shape of Tiered Picnic Box of Cherry Bark with Cherry Blossoms and Butterfly, by Kiyokawa

Case (Inrō) in the Shape of Tiered Picnic Box of Cherry Bark with Cherry Blossoms and Butterfly

Kiyokawa · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly

Pair of Brown Birds with Blossoms, Berries, and a Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum

Robe (Kosode) with Bamboo and Plum

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

Public domainThe Met
Cherries and Butterflies

Cherries and Butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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

Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Court Lady’s Garment (Kosode) with Swallows and Bells on Blossoming Cherry Tree

Court Lady’s Garment (Kosode) with Swallows and Bells on Blossoming Cherry Tree

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

Public domainThe Met
Woman's robe

Woman's robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

Piece from a Kosode with Fans and Cherry Blossoms

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

Public domainThe Met
Cherry Blossom Viewing, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips

Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

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. 46 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. 1525130 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 18:28 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.