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. 16 shown for “Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers” — 45 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:26 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.
Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers

Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Sutra Cover with Eight Buddhist Treasures

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Engraved portrait of five members of Reconstruction Congresses, by Wellstood & Co., American

Engraved portrait of five members of Reconstruction Congresses

Wellstood & Co., American · early 1880s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with character for longevity (shou)

Dish with character for longevity (shou)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Banknote, by Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838

Design for a Banknote

Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Utensils for the Tea Ceremony, by Kubo Shunman 窪俊満

Set of Utensils for the Tea Ceremony

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満 · 1810s

Public domainThe Met
Panneaux et Frisses propre aux Sculpteurs et Peintres Inventez et dessignes par Caffiery Sculpteur, by Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716

Panneaux et Frisses propre aux Sculpteurs et Peintres Inventez et dessignes par Caffiery Sculpteur

Philippe, I Caffieri, French, 1634 – 1716 · 1670–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels, by Unidentified

Carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels

Unidentified · early 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, U.M.W. of A. emblem

Wire frame, U.M.W. of A. emblem

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson

Artist not stated in the record · 1866-1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, star

Wire frame, star

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860-1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, star on stand

Wire frame, star on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, star

Wire frame, star

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wire frame, star on stand

Wire frame, star on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1879-1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lithographic print of Hiram Revels

Lithographic print of Hiram Revels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 258545 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-03 06:26 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.