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 “Benigno Bossi” — 48 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:50 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.
Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées], by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées]

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · 1771, 1764

Public domainThe Met
Title page, by Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792

Title page

Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neoclassical Vase, by Benigno Bossi

Neoclassical Vase

Benigno Bossi · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Gioachimo Bettalli, Italian, active early 19th century

Title Page

Gioachimo Bettalli, Italian, active early 19th century · 1771

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six putti playing with the arms of Mars, by Benigno Bossi

Six putti playing with the arms of Mars

Benigno Bossi · 1769

Public domainThe Met
Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases", by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Vase, plate 18 of "Suite de Vases"

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grief, by Benigno Bossi

Grief

Benigno Bossi · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, with Gabriel at left and the Virgin at right, by Benigno Bossi

The Annunciation, with Gabriel at left and the Virgin at right

Benigno Bossi · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot Marquis de Felino, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot Marquis de Felino

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · [1771]

Public domainThe Met
Album of Ornament Prints, by Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792

Album of Ornament Prints

Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792 · 1764–71

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Suite de Vases, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

Suite de Vases

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vase, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Vase

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Jug, by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801

Design for a Jug

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801 · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Vase

Design for a Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 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. 71 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-26 20:50 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.