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 “Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Doily” — 54 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:30 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.
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · second half 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Doily

Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Doily

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th/early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scarf

Scarf

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Short Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Mitts

Short Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Mitts

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Barbe or Scarf, by unknown

Black Silk Chantilly Bobbin Lace Barbe or Scarf

unknown · 1860-1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shawl

Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Parasol cover

Parasol cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parasol cover

Parasol cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman's headcovering

Woman's headcovering

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Night cap

Night cap

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Flounce

Flounce

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 2 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. 96968 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 2026-09-02 18:30 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.