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. 13 shown for “Anonymous, Dutch” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:11 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 of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 19 (recto), by Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 19 (recto)

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century · 1615–35

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Banquet of Belshazzar

The Banquet of Belshazzar

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590–1620

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
birdcage

birdcage

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Goats, after an etching from Berchem's "Animalia" (Animals) [ Animalia ad vivum delineata et aqua forti aeri impressa Studio et Arte Nicolai Berchem]

Three Goats, after an etching from Berchem's "Animalia" (Animals) [ Animalia ad vivum delineata et aqua forti aeri impressa Studio et Arte Nicolai Berchem]

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Apollo Belvedere (Apollo Pythius), by Harmen Adolfsz, Dutch, 1603 – 1622

Apollo Belvedere (Apollo Pythius)

Harmen Adolfsz, Dutch, 1603 – 1622 · ca. 1592–1617

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Only One Left in the Feudal Dungeon - Germany: Now Even Russia Has Broken Her Chains!, by Louis Raemaekers, Dutch (active in England), 1869 - 1956

The Only One Left in the Feudal Dungeon - Germany: Now Even Russia Has Broken Her Chains!

Louis Raemaekers, Dutch (active in England), 1869 - 1956 · 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Idylle

Idylle

Artist not stated in the record · 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Dutch Barge, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

A Dutch Barge

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · August 20, 1887

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Doctor's Visit

The Doctor's Visit

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutch mailbox

Dutch mailbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1930 - 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dutch Tavern Scene, by Johann Mongles Culverhouse, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1820-died New York City ca. 1891

Dutch Tavern Scene

Johann Mongles Culverhouse, Dutch, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1820-died New York City ca. 1891 · 1846

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. 409 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. 5831 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 10:11 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.