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. 15 shown for “Sumiyoshi Gukei” — 24 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 17:16 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.
Portraits and Poems of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals, by Sumiyoshi Gukei

Portraits and Poems of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals

Sumiyoshi Gukei · 1674–92

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist triad: Sakyamuni, Manjusri and Samantabhadra, by Sumiyoshi Gukei 住吉具慶 (1631-1705)

Buddhist triad: Sakyamuni, Manjusri and Samantabhadra

Sumiyoshi Gukei 住吉具慶 (1631-1705) · mid 17th-early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Sargassum micracanthum

Sargassum micracanthum

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Poet Fujiwara Kiyotada, from the “Narikane Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals, by Unidentified artist

The Poet Fujiwara Kiyotada, from the “Narikane Version” of Thirty-six Poetic Immortals

Unidentified artist · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Acrosorium flabellatum

Acrosorium flabellatum

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Symphyocladia latiuscula (Harv.) Yamada

Symphyocladia latiuscula (Harv.) Yamada

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zoysia matrella var. pacifica Goudswaard

Zoysia matrella var. pacifica Goudswaard

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Nov 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz.

Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix sumiyosensis Kimura

Salix sumiyosensis Kimura

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1933 and 18 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salix sumiyosensis Kimura

Salix sumiyosensis Kimura

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1933 and 18 Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pteris vittata L.

Pteris vittata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · Early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

A festival at the Sumiyoshi Shrine

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

Kyoto ware tea bowl inscribed with poem about Sumiyoshi Shrine

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 21 matched · 21 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 17:16 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.