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 “Brush Rest with Persian Inscription” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:02 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.
Brush Rest with Persian Inscription

Brush Rest with Persian Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a crest with a coat of arms, by Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853

Design for a crest with a coat of arms

Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853 · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1787–1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Magical Stela with Horus the Child

Artist not stated in the record · 360–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Caryatids and a Lion, by Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Caryatids and a Lion

Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden, 1743–1804 · ca. 1779–84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for the Monk Bonafede

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Design for Clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for Clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Gateway Character “Lotus”, by Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)

The Gateway Character “Lotus”

Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki) · ca. 1663–64

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post, by Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post

Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post, by Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post

Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dado Panel

Dado Panel

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post, by Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930

Design for Stained Glass Memorial Window to Thomas J. Post

Robert Winthrop Chanler, American, 1872–1930 · 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, "Blessing, Prosperity, Well-being, Happiness"

Artist not stated in the record · late 10th–11th century

Public domainThe Met
Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene

Devotional Picture: The Pentitent Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Standing figure,Oyster Shells [above]; Elephants Helping Each Other Out of a Trap [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Standing figure,Oyster Shells [above]; Elephants Helping Each Other Out of a Trap [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1596 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon, by Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612

Design for a Salt Cellar and Egg Dish with Fork and Spoon

Ottavio Strada, Italian, 1550 – 1612 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White-Robed Guanyin, by Unidentified

White-Robed Guanyin

Unidentified · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Persian miniature: Standing woman, by Unknown

Persian miniature: Standing woman

Unknown · 18th century

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. 90 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. 264826 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 11:02 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.