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 washer in the shape of a peach” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 03:46 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.
Brush washer in the shape of a peach

Brush washer in the shape of a peach

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Wooden peach crate

Wooden peach crate

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush

Brush

Artist not stated in the record · 664 BCE or later

Public domainThe Met
Drawing

Drawing

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer

Brush washer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers, by Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995

Hat with peach green and yellow fabric flowers

Woodward & Lothrop, American, 1866 - 1995 · late 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Washer

Brush Washer

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pale peach hat with black net and gold bead accents, by Unidentified

Pale peach hat with black net and gold bead accents

Unidentified · 1980s-1990s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Washer

Brush Washer

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Plate 19, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion), by Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836

Plate 19, Costume Parisien (Parisian Costume), Journal des Dames et des Modes (Journal of Ladies and Fashion)

Carle Vernet, French, 1758–1836 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush Washer

Brush Washer

Artist not stated in the record · 1678–88

Public domainThe Met
Matching black velvet dress and jacket with gold basket brooch, by Unidentified

Matching black velvet dress and jacket with gold basket brooch

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer

Brush washer

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Snuff bottle

Snuff bottle

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer

Brush washer

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Straw hat with floral raffia embroidery ?, by Unidentified

Straw hat with floral raffia embroidery ?

Unidentified · 1950s-1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer in the shape of a plum blossom

Brush washer in the shape of a plum blossom

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard, by Dr. Robert H. Goddard

Safety Valve, Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, R.H. Goddard

Dr. Robert H. Goddard · 1930s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer with lotus

Brush washer with lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer in the shape of lotus leaf with chi dragons

Brush washer in the shape of lotus leaf with chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Chintz panel

Chintz panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brush washer with twin dragons

Brush washer with twin dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Trail Embankment, Jamaica, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Trail Embankment, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June 1865

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. 416 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. 7483533 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 03:46 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.