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 “Antoine Syjalon” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:36 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.
Pilgrim bottle with screw top, by Antoine Syjalon

Pilgrim bottle with screw top

Antoine Syjalon · 1581

Public domainThe Met
Antoine Gerthoude Cruzat y Ramos, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Gerthoude Cruzat y Ramos

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau, by Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721

Self-Portrait of Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721 · 1727

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
General Antoine Paul Joseph Louis Garrigues, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

General Antoine Paul Joseph Louis Garrigues

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Capdefert, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Capdefert

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Chauvent Dubreuil, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Chauvent Dubreuil

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Gonzales, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Gonzales

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Rocheville de Menard, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

Antoine Rocheville de Menard

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abies cilicica (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière

Abies cilicica (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abies cilicica (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière

Abies cilicica (Antoine & Kotschy) Carrière

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Porte St. Antoine. Le Palais de Momus, by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Porte St. Antoine. Le Palais de Momus

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aechmea nudicaulis var. aureorosea (Antoine) L.B. Sm.

Aechmea nudicaulis var. aureorosea (Antoine) L.B. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juniperus brevifolia Antoine

Juniperus brevifolia Antoine

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1894

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2861 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 16:36 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.