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, Netherlandish, 16th century” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:27 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.
The Adoration of the Shepherds (Cartoon), by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

The Adoration of the Shepherds (Cartoon)

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Embroidery

Embroidery

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies of a Dog, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Studies of a Dog

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Strong box and key

Strong box and key

Artist not stated in the record · probably 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Scene, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Hunting Scene

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Country Dance, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

A Country Dance

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vignette in Strap-Work, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Design for a Vignette in Strap-Work

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The standing Virgin with an elaborate ornamental frame, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

The standing Virgin with an elaborate ornamental frame

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Stove tile

Stove tile

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of architectural frame, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Fragment of architectural frame

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoration of the Magi, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Adoration of the Magi

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Tree, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Study of a Tree

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden of Eden; Creation of the Animals, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Garden of Eden; Creation of the Animals

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Altar frontal

Altar frontal

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right Half of a Strapwork Cartouche, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Right Half of a Strapwork Cartouche

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of design for architectural frame, by Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Fragment of design for architectural frame

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cover

Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 16th 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. 5975 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. 38993 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 13:27 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.