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 “Brisé Carnet de Bal” — 54 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:10 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.
Two-handled storage jug (albarello) with crowned eagles

Two-handled storage jug (albarello) with crowned eagles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460–80

Public domainThe Met
Brisé Carnet de Bal

Brisé Carnet de Bal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with love motifs

Vase with love motifs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–90

Public domainThe Met
Case, Dance Card

Case, Dance Card

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shallow bowl with Ruggiero

Shallow bowl with Ruggiero

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, carnet-de-bal

Bouquet holder, carnet-de-bal

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pharmacy bottle

Pharmacy bottle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1470–1500

Public domainThe Met
Brisé fan

Brisé fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wide-rimmed bowl with Perseus and Andromeda, by "In Castel Durante" Painter

Wide-rimmed bowl with Perseus and Andromeda

"In Castel Durante" Painter · ca. 1522–25

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pharmacy jar (albarello)

Pharmacy jar (albarello)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1510

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with The Lover Tormented, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Plate with The Lover Tormented

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · dated 1522

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Sep 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/4/96

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 1847

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with angel

Dish with angel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510–30

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate with seated woman reading to a child, by Marco Dente

Plate with seated woman reading to a child

Marco Dente · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug

Jug

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480–1500

Public domainThe Met
Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Grimmia elatior Bruch ex Bals.-Criv. & De Not.

Artist not stated in the record · 1888

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 612656 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 11:10 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.