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. 22 shown for “Bouquet holder, rose motif with yellow stones” — 51 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:28 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.
A Vase of Flowers, by Margareta Haverman

A Vase of Flowers

Margareta Haverman · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, rose motif with yellow stones

Bouquet holder, rose motif with yellow stones

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh

Wheat Field with Cypresses

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones

Bouquet holder, flower motif, paste stones

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears, by Auguste Renoir

Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears

Auguste Renoir · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, rose and leaf motif

Bouquet holder, rose and leaf motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

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

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, rose motif, spade handle

Bouquet holder, rose motif, spade handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

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

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper

Ceiling paper

Artist not stated in the record · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Angels, by Bernard van Orley

Virgin and Child with Angels

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1518

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder or bud vase, bird motif

Bouquet holder or bud vase, bird motif

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Vase with Flowers, by Jacob Vosmaer

A Vase with Flowers

Jacob Vosmaer · probably 1613

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, mirrors, blue stones, mother of pearl handle

Bouquet holder, mirrors, blue stones, mother of pearl handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun, by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun

'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif, by Henry Jenkins and Sons

Bouquet holder, fox and basket weave motif

Henry Jenkins and Sons · ca.1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vanitas Still Life, by Jacques de Gheyn II

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603

Public domainThe Met
Frieze, by Robert Graves Co., New York, New York

Frieze

Robert Graves Co., New York, New York · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Frieze

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouquet holder, rhinestones, bone handle

Bouquet holder, rhinestones, bone handle

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 365716 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 13:28 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.