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. 18 shown for “Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Bird on a Rock under Willow Tree” — 46 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:01 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.
Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Bird on a Rock under Willow Tree

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Bird on a Rock under Willow Tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640–50s

Public domainThe Met
Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine, by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware sake bottle for domestic Shinto shrine

Taizan Yohei · 1800-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake Bottle (Tokkuri)

Sake Bottle (Tokkuri)

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

Public domainThe Met
Ofuke or Seto ware sake bottle, by Kato Soshiro (1802-1877)

Ofuke or Seto ware sake bottle

Kato Soshiro (1802-1877) · 1831-1868

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

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Sake bottle, by Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767)

Sake bottle

Decoration attributed to Kano Tangen (1679-1767) · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Pine Tree

Bottle with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck, by Terami Enkichi (died 1838)

Bizen ware sake bottle in the shape of a wild duck

Terami Enkichi (died 1838) · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wangchuan Villa, by Wang Yuanqi

Wangchuan Villa

Wang Yuanqi · dated 1711

Public domainThe Met
Shidoro ware sake bottle

Shidoro ware sake bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ode on Returning Home, by Qian Xuan

Ode on Returning Home

Qian Xuan · 14th–15th century

Public domainThe Met
Sake bottle, Seto-related or Kyoto-related ware

Sake bottle, Seto-related or Kyoto-related ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type

Sake bottle, Bizen ware, Imbe type

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palampore

Palampore

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A group of geese under snow-covered willow and blossoming trees, by Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century)

A group of geese under snow-covered willow and blossoming trees

Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century) · 16th-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Moon Cape (Tsuki-no-misaki) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sheep and shepherd-boy under a willow, by Formerly attributed to Li Song (傳)李嵩 (late 12th-early 13th century)

Sheep and shepherd-boy under a willow

Formerly attributed to Li Song (傳)李嵩 (late 12th-early 13th century) · 1368-1644

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3006291 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 19:01 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.