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 “Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 04:29 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.
Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes

Bronze statuette of a child with a bunch of grapes

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
The Bronzes

The Bronzes

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with musical movement, by Jean-Baptiste-André Furet

Mantel clock with musical movement

Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784

Public domainThe Met
Char de Bacchus., by Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756

Char de Bacchus.

Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Design for the decoration of a panel

Design for the decoration of a panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Bacchanal of Children

Bacchanal of Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1754

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress

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

Public domainThe Met
Four tile

Four tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Grape Bunch-Shaped Covered Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire, by Peter Langlois

Commode from Croome Court, Worcestershire

Peter Langlois · 1764

Public domainThe Met
Stag, by Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875

Stag

Antoine Louis Barye, 1796 – 1875 · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze diskos thrower

Bronze diskos thrower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 480–460 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cruet Stand

Cruet Stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trotting horse, by Giambologna

Trotting horse

Giambologna · probably 1587–91

Public domainThe Met
Bunch of grapes

Bunch of grapes

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze horse

Bronze horse

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a horse

Bronze statuette of a horse

Artist not stated in the record · late 2nd–1st century BCE

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

LE BASSIN DE BACCHUS

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

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. 1070 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. 3881491 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-09 04:29 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.