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 “Tea caddy imitating Takatori ware” — 43 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:50 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.
Tea caddy

Tea caddy

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy imitating Takatori ware

Tea caddy imitating Takatori ware

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy

Tea caddy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy, katatsuki type

Tea caddy, katatsuki type

Artist not stated in the record · 1624-1688

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gourd-shaped Tea Caddy

Gourd-shaped Tea Caddy

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy, katatsuki type

Tea caddy, katatsuki type

Artist not stated in the record · 1700-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Tea ceremony water jar, Takatori or Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1598-1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Takatori ware tea bowl

Takatori ware tea bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Tea bowl in mishima style, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl named Ochiba (Fallen Leaves), Takatori or Yatsushiro ware

Tea bowl named Ochiba (Fallen Leaves), Takatori or Yatsushiro ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1630-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware

Tea bowl in Korean style, Karatsu ware

Artist not stated in the record · 1600-1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Takatori ware tea ceremony water jar, Higashi Sarayama kiln

Artist not stated in the record · 1850-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tea caddy with faceted sides, katatsuki type

Tea caddy with faceted sides, katatsuki type

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1850

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
Tea caddy, nejinuki type

Tea caddy, nejinuki type

Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1647

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. 9370 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 06:50 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.