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. 17 shown for “Armet with Matching Wrapper” — 51 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 19:50 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.
Armet with Matching Wrapper

Armet with Matching Wrapper

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475

Public domainThe Met
1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single

1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet

Armet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
"Scientific American", by Enos Richardson & Company

"Scientific American"

Enos Richardson & Company · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armet with Wrapper

Armet with Wrapper

Artist not stated in the record · armet, ca. 1460–70; wrapper, ca. 1450; rondel, probably 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
1c Byam, Carlton and Company revenue stamp wrapper approved die proof

1c Byam, Carlton and Company revenue stamp wrapper approved die proof

Artist not stated in the record · December 8, 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloudy Mountains, by Mi Youren

Cloudy Mountains

Mi Youren · before 1200

Public domainThe Met
1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single

1c Byam, Carlton and Company wrapper revenue stamp single

Artist not stated in the record · 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi, by Zhao Mengfu

Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi

Zhao Mengfu · 1310s

Public domainThe Met
Child's wrapper

Child's wrapper

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Boy, by Louis Léopold Boilly

Portrait of a Boy

Louis Léopold Boilly · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Hinggi kombu (men's ceremonial wrapper)

Hinggi kombu (men's ceremonial wrapper)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality, by Wang Zhenpeng

Vimalakirti and the Doctrine of Nonduality

Wang Zhenpeng · dated 1308

Public domainThe Met
Columbian Exposition wrapper with complete set, by American Bank Note Company

Columbian Exposition wrapper with complete set

American Bank Note Company · May 18, 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whiling Away the Summer at the Ink-Well Thatched Hut, by Wu Li

Whiling Away the Summer at the Ink-Well Thatched Hut

Wu Li · 1679

Public domainThe Met
Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Stars and Stripes" wrapper

"Stars and Stripes" wrapper

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1918

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 250636 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 19:50 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.