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. 23 shown for “Bowl with a Horseman” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 06:36 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.
Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent

Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Public domainThe Met
Goblet with Hunting Scene

Goblet with Hunting Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Horseman

Bowl with a Horseman

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century, with early 20th century additions

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

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
View of the Chateau of Chantilly (Upper Plate), by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

View of the Chateau of Chantilly (Upper Plate)

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1680–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass garland bowl

Glass garland bowl

Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
A Hunt Scene

A Hunt Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Trimming

Trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl, by Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II)

Bowl

Nin'ami Dōhachi (Takahashi Dōhachi II) · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lekythos

Lekythos

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century B.C.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
LE CHASTEAU DE ST. MAUR, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE CHASTEAU DE ST. MAUR

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Back of the South Dome from the Nevada Trail, Yosemite, by Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926

Back of the South Dome from the Nevada Trail, Yosemite

Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 1837–1926 · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Public domainThe Met
LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
LE BASSIN DE SATURNE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE BASSIN DE SATURNE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1672–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
LE BASSIN DE FLORE, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

LE BASSIN DE FLORE

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1675–1703

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. 4776 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. 1877864 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-07 06:36 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.