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 “Woman’s robe decorated with crane medallions” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:30 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.
Woman’s robe decorated with crane medallions

Woman’s robe decorated with crane medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's surcoat

Woman's surcoat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman’s coat with crane medallions

Woman’s coat with crane medallions

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Decorative panel

Decorative panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century–first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms), by Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)

Luca Giordano, Italian, 1634 - 1705 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Japanese Robe, by Alfred Stevens

The Japanese Robe

Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872

Public domainThe Met
Music Box

Music Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman’s robe decorated with cranes amid clouds

Woman’s robe decorated with cranes amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Panel (with Nymphs and Garlands), by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Decorative Panel (with Nymphs and Garlands)

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe

Uçetek Entari or Three-Skirt Robe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Oriental, by New Wharf Pottery Co., active 1878 – 1894

Oriental

New Wharf Pottery Co., active 1878 – 1894 · ca. 1878–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman’s robe with butterflies

Woman’s robe with butterflies

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Variety, by Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920

Variety

Ridgeways, ca. 1879 – 1920 · ca. 1879–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Orange Branches and Books

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mandarin Orange Branches and Books

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Kylix

Kylix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440 BC

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Beauty of the Kanbun Era

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Joseph Théodore Deck, French, 1823 - 1891

Plate

Joseph Théodore Deck, French, 1823 - 1891 · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uçetek Entari

Uçetek Entari

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Inkstand, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Inkstand

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1787–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Project for Part of a Painted Decoration, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Project for Part of a Painted Decoration

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750–75

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. 129 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 299698 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 18:30 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.