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. 23 shown for “Bennet” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:02 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.
[Boy and Girl Holding Hands], by Bennet

[Boy and Girl Holding Hands]

Bennet · ca. 1850

Public domainThe Met
Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet

Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strainer spoon, by Edward Bennet I

Strainer spoon

Edward Bennet I · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick (one of a pair), by Anthony de Rooy

Candlestick (one of a pair)

Anthony de Rooy · 1732

Public domainThe Met
Justicia santapaui Bennet

Justicia santapaui Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Belt hook

Belt hook

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Feb 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Axe

Axe

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–12th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiered Box

Tiered Box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/11/62

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiered Box

Tiered Box

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet

Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strainer spoon, by Edward Bennet I

Strainer spoon

Edward Bennet I · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Dyschoriste nagchana (Nees) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 1863 to 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Anthony van Dyck

Self-Portrait

Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1620–21

Public domainThe Met
Justicia santapaui Bennet

Justicia santapaui Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1971

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
To'o (ritual image), by Mā'ohi artist

To'o (ritual image)

Mā'ohi artist · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet

Neohymenopogon parasiticus (Wall.) Bennet

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Open bowl

Open bowl

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

Public domainThe Met
Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet

Aglaia spectabilis (Miq.) S.S. Jain & Bennet

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1933

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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 305 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-07 11:02 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.