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. 21 shown for “Anne Chase” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:01 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.
Embroidered Sampler, by Anne Chase

Embroidered Sampler

Anne Chase · 1721

Public domainThe Met
Peromyscus leucopus

Peromyscus leucopus

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with a Feline-Shaped Handle

Ewer with a Feline-Shaped Handle

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Blarina brevicauda

Blarina brevicauda

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ring

Ring

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides

Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Burner

Incense Burner

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Pen Box (Qalamdan) with Inscriptions, by Hasan Ramadan Shahi

Pen Box (Qalamdan) with Inscriptions

Hasan Ramadan Shahi · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Blarina brevicauda talpoides

Blarina brevicauda talpoides

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jul 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Pomegranate-shaped Thumb Rests

Ewer with Pomegranate-shaped Thumb Rests

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis

Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jan 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Asparagus officinalis L.

Asparagus officinalis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 May 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cover of a Censer, by Godefridus

Cover of a Censer

Godefridus · mid-12th century

Public domainThe Met
Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis

Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus

Microtus pennsylvanicus pennsylvanicus

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763), by Adrien Reynier the Younger, called Le Hollandois

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763)

Adrien Reynier the Younger, called Le Hollandois · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus

Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 2008

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robert Louis Stevenson, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Robert Louis Stevenson

Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1887–88, cast 1898

Public domainThe Met
Throne Leg in the Shape of a Griffin

Throne Leg in the Shape of a Griffin

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

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. 68 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. 45188 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-05 22:01 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.