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 “Sake bottle with pine, bamboo and plum” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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 with pine, bamboo and plum

Sake bottle with pine, bamboo and plum

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

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Sake Bottles with Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

Pair of Sake Bottles with Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kimono

Kimono

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Sacred Jewels, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

Dish with Sacred Jewels, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690–1720s

Public domainThe Met
Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter, by Formerly attributed to Ma Lin (active early to mid-13th century)

Birds, plum blossoms, and bamboo in winter

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sake vessel (Heishi)

Sake vessel (Heishi)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Plum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono) From the Series One hundred Views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Plum Garden, Kamata (Kamata no Umezono) From the Series One hundred Views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu

Old Plum

Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Public domainThe Met
Shidoro ware sake bottle

Shidoro ware sake bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Deer and Crane in Landscape

Gourd-Shaped Bottle with Deer and Crane in Landscape

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
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
Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Freshwater Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine (front) and Plum with Bamboo (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630–40s

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 · ca. 1700–1750

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
Window onto Bamboo on a Rainy Day, by Gion Nankai

Window onto Bamboo on a Rainy Day

Gion Nankai · first half 18th 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
Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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
Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

Chūkei Fan with Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou (obverse) and Plum Tree and Young Pines (reverse)

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

Public domainThe Met
Two riders searching for plum blossoms, by Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230)

Two riders searching for plum blossoms

Formerly attributed to Xia Gui 夏珪 (active ca. 1195-1230) · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle Decorated with "Three Friends" Pine, Bamboo and Plum

Bottle Decorated with "Three Friends" Pine, Bamboo and Plum

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Birds in wintry trees, by Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century)

Birds in wintry trees

Formerly attributed to Li Di (active late 12th-early 13th century) · 16th-17th 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. 83 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. 1561541 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.