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. 12 shown for “Bust of an Official” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:26 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Portrait of Pierre Seguier (1588-1672)

Portrait of Pierre Seguier (1588-1672)

Artist not stated in the record · 1696-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Stone Busts, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

Sketches of Stone Busts

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · ca. 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1c Franklin re-issue single, by National Bank Note Company

1c Franklin re-issue single

National Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harriet Lane Johnston, by William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874

Harriet Lane Johnston

William Henry Rinehart, born Union Bridge, MD 1825-died Rome, Italy 1874 · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
12c Henry Clay special printing single, by Continental Bank Note Company

12c Henry Clay special printing single

Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman, by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844

Bust Portrait of a Classical Woman

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
30c Franklin reprint single, by Continental Bank Note Company

30c Franklin reprint single

Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1c Franklin reprint single, by Continental Bank Note Company

1c Franklin reprint single

Continental Bank Note Company · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frame and chandelier; male portrait bust, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Frame and chandelier; male portrait bust

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, Busts, and Arabesques Ornament Designs, by Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802

Vase, Busts, and Arabesques Ornament Designs

Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802 · 1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur, Italian, 1767 - 1831 · 1800–1830

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2868835 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-27 00:26 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.