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 “Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 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.
Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit

Arch with Running Vines, Leaves, and Fruit

Artist not stated in the record · 6th century

Public domainThe Met
Tent panel

Tent panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basket of Fruit, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Basket of Fruit

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
Border and sidewall

Border and sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Votive candle stand with base from Saint Augustine Catholic Church

Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief with the Annunciation

Relief with the Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1200

Public domainThe Met
Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May–September 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine

Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Domino paper

Domino paper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine

Fragment from a Post or Lintel with Leaves Branching from a Running Vine

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, by Gerard David

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

Gerard David · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Coffre a Racine, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Coffre a Racine

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · 1774–88

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Public domainThe Met
Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures, by Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561

Ornament with Mask and Grotesque Figures

Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561 · 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Napkin fragment

Napkin fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece (cheminée), by François Joseph Belanger

Chimneypiece (cheminée)

François Joseph Belanger · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Pillow cover

Pillow cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Horse Heads

Panel with Horse Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 11th century

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 145 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 1543403 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-28 03:46 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.