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 “Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes” — 58 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:46 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.
Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

Bench Side-Panel Depicting a Calf in the Marshes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Salon de treillage du petit Bois de Sceaux (Left Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Salon de treillage du petit Bois de Sceaux (Left Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1674–1683

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bench End-Panel from a shelf support in the Palace of Amenhotep III-Fruit Stand

Bench End-Panel from a shelf support in the Palace of Amenhotep III-Fruit Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1962–1952 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Salon de Treillage en face de la decharge du Parterre des grenoüilles, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Salon de Treillage en face de la decharge du Parterre des grenoüilles

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1670–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio)

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Hazel Scott at age three

Photograph of Hazel Scott at age three

Artist not stated in the record · 1923; printed later

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Le derriere de l’entrée du Berceau de Mr. de Morstein, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Le derriere de l’entrée du Berceau de Mr. de Morstein

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono)

The Crucifixion

Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono) · probably mid-1450s

Public domainThe Met
Black purse with gold hardware and front flap, by Dofan of France, French

Black purse with gold hardware and front flap

Dofan of France, French · 1950s - 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of a Wall as a Picture Gallery, by Unknown, Italian

Decoration of a Wall as a Picture Gallery

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection, by Ludwig Schongauer

Christ before Pilate; The Resurrection

Ludwig Schongauer

Public domainThe Met
Heraldic Panel

Heraldic Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1564

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Pink cowl neck halter dress by Stephen Burrows, by Stephen Burrows, American, born 1943

Pink cowl neck halter dress by Stephen Burrows

Stephen Burrows, American, born 1943 · 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist, by Bernard van Orley

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1514–15

Public domainThe Met
Table cover

Table cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by South German (Bavarian?) Painter

The Annunciation

South German (Bavarian?) Painter · 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: East Wall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Two Mantel Clock Case Designs, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Two Mantel Clock Case Designs

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1738

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 3 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. 276 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 05:46 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.