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 Shells and Sea Grasses” — 57 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:37 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 Shells and Sea Grasses

Robe (Kosode) with Shells and Sea Grasses

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Projet de la chapelle de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the St. Sulpice Chapel of Paris), plate 101, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Projet de la chapelle de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for the St. Sulpice Chapel of Paris), plate 101, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769

Public domainThe Met
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Two Sisters, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Two Sisters

Jean Honoré Fragonard · ca. 1769–70

Public domainThe Met
Pshán-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass, Twelve-year-old Daughter of Bloody Hand, by George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Pshán-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass, Twelve-year-old Daughter of Bloody Hand

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832

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
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unlined Kosode (Hitoe) with Grasses and Dewdrops

Unlined Kosode (Hitoe) with Grasses and Dewdrops

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 18th–19th 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
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

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
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

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
Pilgrim Flask, by Bernard Palissy

Pilgrim Flask

Bernard Palissy · probably 1556–67

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
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Le Galand Chasseur, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Le Galand Chasseur

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triton, by Giambologna

Triton

Giambologna · 1590s

Public domainThe Met
Chapan (robe)

Chapan (robe)

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Crickets, Grasshoppers, Cricket Cages, and Pampas Grass

Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Crickets, Grasshoppers, Cricket Cages, and Pampas Grass

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Robe

Robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 2 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. 2273745 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 22:37 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.