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 “Borch, active mid 18th century” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:32 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.
Turnus Provoked into War by Aeneas, by José Manuel de la Cerda

Turnus Provoked into War by Aeneas

José Manuel de la Cerda · ca. 1764

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku), by Saotome Ietada

Armor (Gusoku)

Saotome Ietada · 16th and 18th centuries

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku) with Box, by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信

Armor (Gusoku) with Box

Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Title Page

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century)

Virgin and Child

Follower of Rogier van der Weyden (Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Group, Netherlandish, active late 15th century) · ca. 1480–90

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book cover, by Johann Jakob Bruglocher II

Book cover

Johann Jakob Bruglocher II · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Nouveau Livre de Cartouches à l’Usage de différens Artistes, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Nouveau Livre de Cartouches à l’Usage de différens Artistes

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
'Saz'-Style Drawing of a Dragon Amid Foliage, by Shah Quli

'Saz'-Style Drawing of a Dragon Amid Foliage

Shah Quli · ca. 1540–50

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with long-tailed birds and hibiscuses, by Zhang Cheng

Dish with long-tailed birds and hibiscuses

Zhang Cheng · mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825), by Louis-François Jeannest

Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825)

Louis-François Jeannest · 1812

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musk Cat, by Uto Gyoshi

Musk Cat

Uto Gyoshi · mid- to late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cartouche Design, by Borch, active mid 18th century

Cartouche Design

Borch, active mid 18th century · 1729–68

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. 422 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. 71238 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 14:32 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.