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 “Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus” — 55 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:37 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.
Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus

Buddha’s Hand Fruits with Peaches, Pomegranates, and Leaves of Fungus

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit and Flowers, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Fruit and Flowers

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Comb

Design for a Comb

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes with poems, by Gong Xian

Landscapes with poems

Gong Xian · 1688

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus

Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and Buddha's hand citrus

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Basket of Blossoms and Leaves with Pomegranates on Earth

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brioche, by Edouard Manet

The Brioche

Edouard Manet · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by A. Panier, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

A. Panier, French, active 18th century · 1772-1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Smooth Leaved Green Antigua Pine, by George Brookshaw

The Smooth Leaved Green Antigua Pine

George Brookshaw · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Trophy Design, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Ornamental Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1759–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Brown Havannah Pine, by George Brookshaw

The Brown Havannah Pine

George Brookshaw · 1807

Public domainThe Met
Two Designs for Hand Fans, by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Two Designs for Hand Fans

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Joos van Cleve

Virgin and Child

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Buddhist altarpiece

Buddhist altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · 597

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

Hexagonal vase with Rococo-style flowers

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower, by Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786

Designs for Flowers: White Muscade Rose, Pomegranate Flower

Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786 · 1778

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), by Luis Meléndez

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda)

Luis Meléndez · ca. 1772

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble back

Chasuble back

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Public domainThe Met
Cap streamers

Cap streamers

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fruit (or Pomegranate), by William Morris

Fruit (or Pomegranate)

William Morris · ca. 1866

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
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 3264501 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 2026-09-07 23:37 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.