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. 21 shown for “Robe (Kosode) with Spring Rice Fields” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 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 Spring Rice Fields

Robe (Kosode) with Spring Rice Fields

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th 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
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuffbox mounted with two miniatures

Snuffbox mounted with two miniatures

Artist not stated in the record · 1768–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Isachne globosa (Thunb.) Kuntze

Isachne globosa (Thunb.) Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1921

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
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
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
Over robe (uchikake) with chrysanthemums, butterflies, and sheaves of rice straw

Over robe (uchikake) with chrysanthemums, butterflies, and sheaves of rice straw

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

Public domainThe Met
Hoeing Rice, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Hoeing Rice, South Carolina, U.S.A.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1904; published after 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Servatius Crushing a Dragon, with Saint Michael Weighing Souls below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

Saint Servatius Crushing a Dragon, with Saint Michael Weighing Souls below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Public domainThe Met
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin in a Blue Robe Decorated with Images of Wheat, with the Arms of the Bishop of Liège below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

The Virgin in a Blue Robe Decorated with Images of Wheat, with the Arms of the Bishop of Liège below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Seated Lady

Seated Lady

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels

The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints above Predella Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 1440–46

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival, by Ike no Taiga

Orchid Pavilion Gathering; Autumn Harvest Festival

Ike no Taiga · ca. 1763

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. 42 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. 1358150 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:30 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.