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. 14 shown for “Bow-Shaped Brooch” — 17 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:06 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.
Bow-Shaped Brooch

Bow-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Design for Brooch or Hair Ornament in Shape of Feather

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bow-Shaped Brooch

Bow-Shaped Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Tintype in a paper case of three unidentified young women seated

Artist not stated in the record · 1870s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing Brooch

Wing Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 100–200

Public domainThe Met
Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Photograph portraits of Josephine Sampson

Artist not stated in the record · 1910s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square-Headed Bow Brooch

Square-Headed Bow Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · 500–600

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow Brooch

Crossbow Brooch

Artist not stated in the record · early 400s

Public domainThe Met
[La Comtesse décolletée; Roses mousseuses], by Pierre-Louis Pierson

[La Comtesse décolletée; Roses mousseuses]

Pierre-Louis Pierson · 1861–67

Public domainThe Met
Fashion (Mode), by Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke

Fashion (Mode)

Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke · 1912

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
Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 1, by Anonymous, French

Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 1

Anonymous, French · 1770 or after

Public domainThe Met
Prostibula vel (ut mollius dicam) amica Veneta; Ducis Veneti Vxor; Nobilis matrona Veneta; Virgo Veneta, by Abraham de Bruyn

Prostibula vel (ut mollius dicam) amica Veneta; Ducis Veneti Vxor; Nobilis matrona Veneta; Virgo Veneta

Abraham de Bruyn · 1580

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, "Omnium Pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus", by Abraham de Bruyn

Title Page, "Omnium Pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus"

Abraham de Bruyn · 1580

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:06 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.