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 Ferns” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 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 Ferns

Robe (Kosode) with Ferns

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, by Unidentified

Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles

Unidentified · ca. 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe for a statue

Robe for a statue

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Automobile and driver's robe

Automobile and driver's robe

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Chapan (robe)

Chapan (robe)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Public domainThe Met
White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

Artist not stated in the record · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Robed figure with whip, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Robed figure with whip

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

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
Boxing robe worn by Sugar Ray Robinson

Boxing robe worn by Sugar Ray Robinson

Artist not stated in the record · 1940-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Pine, Ivy, Chrysanthemums, and River

Robe (Kosode) with Pine, Ivy, Chrysanthemums, and River

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

Public domainThe Met
Noh robe

Noh robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Pines and Interlocking Squares

Robe (Kosode) with Pines and Interlocking Squares

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

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · early 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. 58 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. 521853 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-29 10:29 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.