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. 12 shown for “Box for Seal Paste” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:52 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter, by Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s

Certificate of Authorization for the Title of "Von" for Johann Ferdinand Richter

Franz Mayer, Austrian, active 1700s · April 7, 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs, by Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s

Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phoca vitulina

Phoca vitulina

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Skippet and cover with seal of Leopold II

Skippet and cover with seal of Leopold II

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–92

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Designs for Ornament, Jewelry, and Seals

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein", by Paul Decker, 1677–1713

Designs for Tobacco and Powder Boxes, Watches, Seals, and other Goldsmith Ornaments, from the set "Neues sehr dienliches Goldschmids Büchlein"

Paul Decker, 1677–1713 · ca. 1705

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks, by Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833

Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks

Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833 · 1825

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 517759 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 01:52 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.