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 White Cockatoo” — 64 records examined, 10 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 White Cockatoo

Brush Rest with White Cockatoo

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "America", by Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858 · mid- 18th–early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Rest with Persian Inscription

Brush Rest with Persian Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs

Page from a photograph album with six mounted photographs

Artist not stated in the record · 1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Night-Shining White, by Han Gan

Night-Shining White

Han Gan · ca. 750

Public domainThe Met
Textile, by Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765

Textile

Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765 · 1751–56

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
"Petites colonne placee entre les colonnes departmentales", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Petites colonne placee entre les colonnes departmentales"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Adrien Dassier

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Adrien Dassier · 1666

Public domainThe Met
"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Un des cotes du Pavillon orchestre dans le Jardin des Tuileries, en Juillet 1838"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Fire screen

Fire screen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

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
Design for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers and Birds

Design for Wallpaper and Textiles: Flowers and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Musician, by Bartholomeus van der Helst

The Musician

Bartholomeus van der Helst · 1662

Public domainThe Met
A White-Brown Cockatoo

A White-Brown Cockatoo

Artist not stated in the record · 1610–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tiger in Repose, by Antoine-Louis Barye

Tiger in Repose

Antoine-Louis Barye · ca. 1850–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chair

Design for a Chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Four Angels, by Gerard David

Virgin and Child with Four Angels

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
"Orchestres du grand carre des champs-elysees (1838)", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Orchestres du grand carre des champs-elysees (1838)"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

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

White-Robed Guanyin

Unidentified · late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Mâts placés sur le Pont-Neuf aux Fêtes de Juillet 1838 (Flagpole for Pont Neuf, Paris, July Festival 1838), by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

Mâts placés sur le Pont-Neuf aux Fêtes de Juillet 1838 (Flagpole for Pont Neuf, Paris, July Festival 1838)

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Great African Kingfisher, Plate 11 from Birds of Western Africa

Great African Kingfisher, Plate 11 from Birds of Western Africa

Artist not stated in the record · 1837

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. 96 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. 330261 matched · 40 examined · 10 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.