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 “Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:54 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.
Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-eagle pendant, by Initial Style artist(s)

Double-eagle pendant

Initial Style artist(s) · 1–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Nov 2006

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bifolium from the "Nurse's Qur'an" (Mushaf al-Hadina)

Bifolium from the "Nurse's Qur'an" (Mushaf al-Hadina)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 410 AH/1019–20 CE

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jul 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary, by Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial G, from an Antiphonary

Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jan 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter with a thunderbolt, by Joseph de Levis

Jupiter with a thunderbolt

Joseph de Levis · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi

Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180

Public domainThe Met
Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Macrolobium bifolium (Aubl.) Pers.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bifolium with Initial L, from an Antiphonary

Bifolium with Initial L, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Man and Woman in an Inn, by Frans Hals

Young Man and Woman in an Inn

Frans Hals · 1623

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson

Galium bifolium S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1405

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Manuscript Leaf with Initial C, from an Antiphonary

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Galium bifolium S. Watson in C. King

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1881

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. 1234 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. 1523377 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 17:54 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.