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. 19 shown for “Baltimore Painter” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Terracotta lekanis (dish), by Baltimore Painter

Terracotta lekanis (dish)

Baltimore Painter · ca. 325–300 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baptising Scene by Endicott & Swett, by Van Valkenburgh, James

Baptising Scene by Endicott & Swett

Van Valkenburgh, James · 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl), by Baltimore Painter

Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl)

Baltimore Painter · ca. 330–310 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy, by Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emma Van Name, by Joshua Johnson

Emma Van Name

Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain), by Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825

Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)

Joshua Johnson, born Baltimore County, MD ca.1763-died Anne Arundel County, MD ca. 1825 · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Persephone Painter

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Persephone Painter · ca. 440 BCE

Public domainThe Met
James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait, by James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889

James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait

James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889 · c. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Volute-krater fragments, by Baltimore Painter

Volute-krater fragments

Baltimore Painter · ca. 330–310 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a man standing with two chairs

Cabinet card studio portrait of a man standing with two chairs

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Baltimore Painter

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Baltimore Painter · last quarter of 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of John Westwood, by Joshua Johnson, American, ca. 1763 - after 1832

Portrait of John Westwood

Joshua Johnson, American, ca. 1763 - after 1832 · ca. 1807-1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater, by Baltimore Painter

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater

Baltimore Painter · ca. 330–310 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Baltimore and Grafton Railway Owney tag

Baltimore and Grafton Railway Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · April 20, 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.11,.19, by Baltimore Painter

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.11,.19

Baltimore Painter · last quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.10,.11, by Baltimore Painter

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.10,.11

Baltimore Painter · last quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.10,.19, by Baltimore Painter

Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water); joins 19.192.81.5,.10,.19

Baltimore Painter · last quarter of the 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water), by Capodimonte Painter

Terracotta volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

Capodimonte Painter · ca. 320–310 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

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. 363 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. 19952 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:00 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.