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. 20 shown for “Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:46 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.
Jamb stove, by Samuel Flower

Jamb stove

Samuel Flower · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Brooch/Pendant in the form of a Purple Flower

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), by Edgar Degas

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas · 1865

Public domainThe Met
Brooch in the form of a Purple Flower, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Brooch in the form of a Purple Flower

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Venus and Cupids

Venus and Cupids

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brooch in the form of a pansy, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

Brooch in the form of a pansy

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Gold and Cabochon Gem Brooch, by Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898

Design for a Gold and Cabochon Gem Brooch

Alexis Falize, French, 1811–1898 · ca. 1855

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet, by Filippo Negroli

Burgonet

Filippo Negroli · dated 1543

Public domainThe Met
Brooch and pair of earrings

Brooch and pair of earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by George E Germer, 1868 – 1936

Design for a Brooch

George E Germer, 1868 – 1936 · 1910–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, by Veit Langenbucher

Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ

Veit Langenbucher · ca. 1625

Public domainThe Met
Design for Brooch and Pendant

Design for Brooch and Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Toilette of Venus, by François Boucher

The Toilette of Venus

François Boucher · 1751

Public domainThe Met
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Dagger with Hilt in the Form of a Blue Bull (Nilgai)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
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. 2312 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. 2911 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 21:46 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.