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. 12 shown for “Andrés de Melgar” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-30 18:36 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Grotesque ornament with garlands and vase, by Andrés de Melgar

Grotesque ornament with garlands and vase

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Satyr riding a fantastical creature, snail-like creatures, by Andrés de Melgar

Satyr riding a fantastical creature, snail-like creatures

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Term with snails and strapwork (recto); Candelabra grotesque with two figures (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Term with snails and strapwork (recto); Candelabra grotesque with two figures (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Female grotesque and harpy (recto); fantastical creatures and masks (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Female grotesque and harpy (recto); fantastical creatures and masks (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Satyr holding a fantastical creature (recto); Two candelabra grotesques (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Satyr holding a fantastical creature (recto); Two candelabra grotesques (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Candelabra grotesque and studies of kneeling figures (recto); two sphinxes (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Candelabra grotesque and studies of kneeling figures (recto); two sphinxes (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Griffins, female grotesque, mask and figures (recto); two turtle-like creatures and a scene with figures (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Griffins, female grotesque, mask and figures (recto); two turtle-like creatures and a scene with figures (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Grotesque panel with satyrs, herms, and strapwork (recto); winged creatures and strapwork (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Grotesque panel with satyrs, herms, and strapwork (recto); winged creatures and strapwork (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Two scenes; a reclining warrior above, sleeping cupid below (recto); grotesque niche with standing warrior (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Two scenes; a reclining warrior above, sleeping cupid below (recto); grotesque niche with standing warrior (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Studies for birds and grotesque masks (recto); candelabra grotesques, ewers and vases (verso), by Andrés de Melgar

Studies for birds and grotesque masks (recto); candelabra grotesques, ewers and vases (verso)

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Frieze with Grotesques, by Andrés de Melgar

Design for a Frieze with Grotesques

Andrés de Melgar · ca. 1545–60

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. 2142 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 18:36 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.