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 “Box for Books with Waterfall” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:54 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.
Box for Books with Waterfall

Box for Books with Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics", by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics"

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1865–1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1700

Public domainThe Met
Plate in Nouveaux Livre de Paysages (New Book of Landscapes), by Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752

Plate in Nouveaux Livre de Paysages (New Book of Landscapes)

Daniel Marot, French, active in the Netherlands and England, 1661–1752 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 1660–1700

Public domainThe Met
Naufrage (Shipwreck), in Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux de Fantaisie (New Book of Twelve Works of Fantasy), by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Naufrage (Shipwreck), in Livre Nouveau de Douze Morceaux de Fantaisie (New Book of Twelve Works of Fantasy)

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, by Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

Francesco di Giorgio Martini · ca. 1478–82

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Design for a Monument flanked by Fountains

Artist not stated in the record · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sarcophagus of Wennefer

Sarcophagus of Wennefer

Artist not stated in the record · 380–332 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall, near Tuquerres, Colombia, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall, near Tuquerres, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by J. P. M., Paris, France

Box

J. P. M., Paris, France · 1766–67

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver and Crystal Compote, by Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868

Design for a Silver and Crystal Compote

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868 · 1827–35

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Monument Flanked by Fountains

Design for a Monument Flanked by Fountains

Artist not stated in the record · 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Waterfall, by James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913

Waterfall

James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shabti box and shabtis of members of the Sennedjem family

Shabti box and shabtis of members of the Sennedjem family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valley Waterfall and Churches, Switzerland, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Valley Waterfall and Churches, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Repeating watch, by Francis Perigal

Repeating watch

Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Three Landscapes, Design for Washington Board of Trade Dinner, May 13, 1908, by James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913

Three Landscapes, Design for Washington Board of Trade Dinner, May 13, 1908

James Henry Moser, Canadian, 1854–1913 · 1908

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bidri Box for Holding Pan

Bidri Box for Holding Pan

Artist not stated in the record · early–mid 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal), by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leather box

Leather box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a Waterfall

Landscape with a Waterfall

Artist not stated in the record · 1648

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. 280 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 689822 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-29 05:54 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.