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 “Anonymous, German, 17th century” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:14 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.
Allegory on Vanity, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Allegory on Vanity

Anonymous, German, 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Concert de Famille

Concert de Famille

Artist not stated in the record · 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triumphal Entry of King, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Triumphal Entry of King

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Key

Key

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a frame with foliates and putti, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Design for a frame with foliates and putti

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for Decorative Arts Objects, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Studies for Decorative Arts Objects

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Brooch

Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Reign of Heavens, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

The Reign of Heavens

Anonymous, German, 17th century · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Tabernacle with the Annunciation, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Design for a Tabernacle with the Annunciation

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyramus and Thisbe, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Pyramus and Thisbe

Anonymous, German, 17th century · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chimneypiece with a Personification of Virtue, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Design for a Chimneypiece with a Personification of Virtue

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 1616

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb for a Bishop, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Tomb for a Bishop

Anonymous, German, 17th century · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celebration for the Elector Johann Georg II, Leipzig, July 8, 1667, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Celebration for the Elector Johann Georg II, Leipzig, July 8, 1667

Anonymous, German, 17th century · ca. 1667

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate from a book showing a procession of men and women with a skeleton at the beginning, middle and end of the line, by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Plate from a book showing a procession of men and women with a skeleton at the beginning, middle and end of the line

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcus Aurelius on Horseback (recto); Study of an Antique Vase (verso), by Anonymous, German, 17th century

Marcus Aurelius on Horseback (recto); Study of an Antique Vase (verso)

Anonymous, German, 17th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Glass fragment

Glass fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th-mid 18th century

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. 4667 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. 52068 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-08-27 01:14 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.