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. 20 shown for “Affecter” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:06 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.
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Affecter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Affecter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Maternal Affection

Maternal Affection

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta amphora (jar), by Affecter

Terracotta amphora (jar)

Affecter · ca. 540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paper-Bound Album of Silhouettes, by Grandmother of Henry W. A. Littledale, English, active 19th c.

Paper-Bound Album of Silhouettes

Grandmother of Henry W. A. Littledale, English, active 19th c. · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Affecter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Affecter · ca. 550–540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Affecter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Affecter · ca. 550–540 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Waltheria indica L.

Waltheria indica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Mar 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Affecter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Affecter · ca. 550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Panicum hemitomon Schult.

Panicum hemitomon Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parochialstrasse in Berlin, by Eduard Gaertner

Parochialstrasse in Berlin

Eduard Gaertner · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Panther and Cubs--"Maternal Affection", by Edward Kemeys, born Savannah, GA 1843-died Washington, DC 1907

Panther and Cubs--"Maternal Affection"

Edward Kemeys, born Savannah, GA 1843-died Washington, DC 1907 · ca. 1870-1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Yashoda with the Infant Krishna

Artist not stated in the record · early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1810

Public domainThe Met
To One I Love, by Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888

To One I Love

Thomas Stevens, English, 1828–1888 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume, by Peter Paul Rubens

Portrait of Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume

Peter Paul Rubens · 1617

Public domainThe Met
Dog kennel, by Claude I Sené

Dog kennel

Claude I Sené · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Tumbler, by Bakewell, Page & Bakewell

Tumbler

Bakewell, Page & Bakewell · 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Clytie, by George Frederic Watts

Clytie

George Frederic Watts · ca. 1868–75

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. 519 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 710 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:06 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.