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 “Auspicious Emblem with Pururavas and Urvashi” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:41 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 Pururavas and Urvashi

Auspicious Emblem with Pururavas and Urvashi

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

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures

Auspicious Emblem with Four Dancing Figures

Artist not stated in the record · 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tray, from a Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Tray, from a Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Waves and Auspicious Emblems

Bottle with Waves and Auspicious Emblems

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Lemonade Set, by Royal Worcester, English, established 1751

Lemonade Set

Royal Worcester, English, established 1751 · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers

Auspicious Emblem with Five Revelers

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

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Auspicious Noh Dance "Okina", by Toriyama Sekien

The Auspicious Noh Dance "Okina"

Toriyama Sekien · ca. 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barberini Cabinet, by Galleria dei Lavori, Florence

Barberini Cabinet

Galleria dei Lavori, Florence · ca. 1606–23

Public domainThe Met
Finial in the shape of a dragon head

Finial in the shape of a dragon head

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

Public domainThe Met
Dragon jar

Dragon jar

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with auspicious symbols

Bowl with auspicious symbols

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter, by Kano Chikanobu

Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter

Kano Chikanobu · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Bowl with auspicious emblems (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1522044 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 04:41 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.