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. 23 shown for “Sutra Cover with Peaches and the Characters for Longevity (Shou)” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 02:23 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.
Sutra Cover with Peaches and the Characters for Longevity (Shou)

Sutra Cover with Peaches and the Characters for Longevity (Shou)

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Covered Box on Stand

Covered Box on Stand

Artist not stated in the record · 1736–1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds

Sutra Box (Kyōbako) with Sun and Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Scroll cover (sutra cover)

Scroll cover (sutra cover)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Cover with Medallions of Characters of Longevity

Sutra Cover with Medallions of Characters of Longevity

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Peach dress and belt worn by Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show, by L'Wren Scott, American, 1964 - 2014

Peach dress and belt worn by Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Winfrey Show

L'Wren Scott, American, 1964 - 2014 · 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity", by Taizan Yohei

Taizan ware vase with design of the character for "longevity"

Taizan Yohei · 1850-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Panel with Longevity (Shou) Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Cushion cover

Cushion cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Floral peach brocade evening jacket, by Unidentified

Floral peach brocade evening jacket

Unidentified · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Cover

Sutra Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers, by Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995

Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers

Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995 · late 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Cover with Chinese Characters

Sutra Cover with Chinese Characters

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Slate notebook used by Bishop Benjamin Tanner, by Unidentified

Slate notebook used by Bishop Benjamin Tanner

Unidentified · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra cover

Sutra cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Wire frame, casket cover piece

Wire frame, casket cover piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra cover

Sutra cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Book Cover, by Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961

Design for a Book Cover

Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 1863–1961 · ca. 1887–1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with characters for longevity (shou)

Cup with characters for longevity (shou)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sixteen Luohans, by Wu Bin

The Sixteen Luohans

Wu Bin · dated 1591

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. 77 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. 1986124 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 02:23 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.