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 “Border (Bas de rochet)” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:23 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 (Bas de rochet)

Border (Bas de rochet)

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté, by Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France

Recueil des Festes, Feux D’Artifice, et Pompes funèbres, ordonées pour le Roi, par Messieurs les Premiers Gentilhommes de sa Chambre. Conduites par Messieurs les Intendans & Controleurs Généraux de l'Argenterie, Menus Plaisirs & Affaires de la Chambre de Sa Majesté

Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, France · 1735-1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Border (Bas de rochet)

Border (Bas de rochet)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
George Scott Winslow, by Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907

George Scott Winslow

Edmonia Lewis, American, 1844 - 1907 · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore

Symplocos cochinchinensis (Lour.) S. Moore

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Smilax corbularia Kunth

Smilax corbularia Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
La dedvction de l'innocence de messire Philippe Baron de Montmorency, Conte de Hornes, franc seigneur de Vveert, admiral & capitaine general de la Mer du pais bas ... contre la malicievse apprehension, indeüe detention, injuste procedure, fausse accusation, iniques sentences et tyrannicque exécution en sa personne à grand tort, par voye de faict perpetrees, by Jacques de Wesenbeke

La dedvction de l'innocence de messire Philippe Baron de Montmorency, Conte de Hornes, franc seigneur de Vveert, admiral & capitaine general de la Mer du pais bas ... contre la malicievse apprehension, indeüe detention, injuste procedure, fausse accusation, iniques sentences et tyrannicque exécution en sa personne à grand tort, par voye de faict perpetrees

Jacques de Wesenbeke · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Alsophila metteniana Hance

Alsophila metteniana Hance

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Michael and Francis, by Juan de Flandes

Saints Michael and Francis

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1505–9

Public domainThe Met
Diospyros virgata (Gürke) Brenan

Diospyros virgata (Gürke) Brenan

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/4/77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.

Centotheca lappacea (L.) Desv.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Dec 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boating, by Edouard Manet

Boating

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

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
Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Blotiella javanica (Desr.) C.V. Morton

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Oct 1909 to 19 Oct 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Grona styracifolia (Osbeck) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi

Grona styracifolia (Osbeck) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Sep 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don

Lespedeza cuneata (Dum. Cours.) G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1928

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. 33 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. 648557 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-02 18:23 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.