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 “Album Page with Découpé Calligraphy” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:07 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.
Album Page with Découpé Calligraphy

Album Page with Découpé Calligraphy

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Platte Bende decoup de Floeurs (Flat Band of Flowers, Five Different Variations), in Nouveaux Livre de Parterres contenant 24 pensséz diferantes (New Book Containing 24 Different Variations for Garden Beds), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Platte Bende decoup de Floeurs (Flat Band of Flowers, Five Different Variations), in Nouveaux Livre de Parterres contenant 24 pensséz diferantes (New Book Containing 24 Different Variations for Garden Beds)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong, by Yun Xiang

Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Yun Xiang · datable to 1645–55

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain with Landscape, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Fountain with Landscape

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning, by Zhou Lianggong

Poems from the Pavilion of True Meaning

Zhou Lianggong · datable to 1663 or later

Public domainThe Met
Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

Photograph album owned by Emily Howland

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu, by Various artists

Album of painting and calligraphy for Maoshu

Various artists · 1666–80

Public domainThe Met
album page with three covers with British Field Post markings on album page

album page with three covers with British Field Post markings on album page

Artist not stated in the record · 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Page of Calligraphy, by Sultan Muhammad Nur

Page of Calligraphy

Sultan Muhammad Nur · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
album page with notations referencing cover on album page

album page with notations referencing cover on album page

Artist not stated in the record · February 12, 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Telegraph license with Haifa postmark on album page

Telegraph license with Haifa postmark on album page

Artist not stated in the record · November 28, 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph album of Allston family and other portraits

Photograph album of Allston family and other portraits

Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim’s Visiting Album

Pilgrim’s Visiting Album

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Album page with cover sent via British Depot Mail and voter form on album page

Album page with cover sent via British Depot Mail and voter form on album page

Artist not stated in the record · December 31, 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Pilgrim's Visiting Album

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Album page

Album page

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing, by Konoe Nobutada

Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing

Konoe Nobutada · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Album page

Album page

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Album page

Album page

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eight views of the Yellow Mountains, by Zheng Min

Eight views of the Yellow Mountains

Zheng Min · 1681

Public domainThe Met
Album page

Album page

Artist not stated in the record

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. 117 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 263367 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 2026-08-26 16:07 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.