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 “Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns” — 51 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:45 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.
Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Satsuma ware serving bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Artist not stated in the record · 1790-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers

Bowl with Incised Lotus Flowers

Artist not stated in the record · second half 17th century or later

Public domainThe Met
Tenmoku style tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Tenmoku style tea bowl, Ryumonji kilns

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ryumonji ware sake flask

Ryumonji ware sake flask

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Incised Decoration

Bottle with Incised Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware tea bowl

Satsuma ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1640-1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
White Satsuma ware tea bowl

White Satsuma ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1690-1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware sake ewer

Satsuma ware sake ewer

Artist not stated in the record · second half of 17th-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Satsuma ware vase

Satsuma ware vase

Artist not stated in the record · 18th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with foliate rim

Dish with foliate rim

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mino ware bowl with pedestal foot, Oribe style

Mino ware bowl with pedestal foot, Oribe style

Artist not stated in the record · 1620-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with Calligraphic Decoration

Plate with Calligraphic Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

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
Satsuma ware tea caddy

Satsuma ware tea caddy

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kyoto ware individual serving bowl in shape of sedge hat, with mark "Kiyomizu"

Kyoto ware individual serving bowl in shape of sedge hat, with mark "Kiyomizu"

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Karatsu ware individual food-serving cup, E-Karatsu type

Karatsu ware individual food-serving cup, E-Karatsu type

Artist not stated in the record · 1596-1615

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 43074 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 00:45 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.