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 “Burse (part of a set)” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:51 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.
Burse (part of a set)

Burse (part of a set)

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

Public domainThe Met
Burse

Burse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Panel with Byzantine Ivory Carving of the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century (ivory); late 11th century (setting)

Public domainThe Met
Burse

Burse

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Settee (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Magnolia acuminata (L.) L.

Magnolia acuminata (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armchair (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Armchair (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Fleischmannia incarnata (Walter) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Fleischmannia incarnata (Walter) R.M. King & H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Sep 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burse

Burse

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six, by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888

Cloisonne Enamel Teaspoon, Part of a Set of Six

Pavel Ovchinnikov, Russian, 1830 - 1888 · ca. 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sofa (part of a set), by Filippo Pelagio Palagi

Sofa (part of a set)

Filippo Pelagio Palagi · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
Armchair (bergère) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Armchair (bergère) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · ca. 1788

Public domainThe Met
Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set), by Georges Jacob

Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set), by Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1754–56

Public domainThe Met
Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set), by Adam Weisweiler

Commode (commode à vantaux) (part of a set)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dinner Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burse

Burse

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

Public domainThe Met
Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Dessert Knife with Green-Stained Ivory Handle

Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 4130 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. 3857196 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 05:51 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.