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 “Arhat holding a shoe” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Arhat holding a shoe

Arhat holding a shoe

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
Study of Hands of a Violin Player, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study of Hands of a Violin Player

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · March 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoes, by Vincent van Gogh

Shoes

Vincent van Gogh · 1888

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten

Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddhist disciple, or luohan, holding a peach

Buddhist disciple, or luohan, holding a peach

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion), by Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836

Plate 51, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion)

Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint

An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
"Brownies" Characters, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

"Brownies" Characters

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pair of women's silver spurs

Pair of women's silver spurs

Artist not stated in the record · 1852

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arhat Vajraputra, by Unidentified artist

The Arhat Vajraputra

Unidentified artist · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of a man and a woman standing outside

Photographic print of a man and a woman standing outside

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arhat (Luohan)

Arhat (Luohan)

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

Public domainThe Met
Interior Scene with Women and a Child, by François Boucher, French, 1703–1770

Interior Scene with Women and a Child

François Boucher, French, 1703–1770 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a young woman

Bronze statuette of a young woman

Artist not stated in the record · late 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta statuette of a draped woman

Terracotta statuette of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone statuette of a temple girl

Limestone statuette of a temple girl

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE–1st century CE

Public domainThe Met
LE MAITRE D'ARMES, by Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759

LE MAITRE D'ARMES

Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759 · 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoe Reliquary

Shoe Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–1400

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for Beer

Advertisement for Beer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shoe Buckle

Shoe Buckle

Artist not stated in the record · late 600's

Public domainThe Met
Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen, by Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

Arhat (Nakula), one of a set of sixteen

Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360) · mid-14th 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. 157 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 1768356 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 07:39 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.