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 “C. G. Gunther's Sons” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:05 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.
Evening coat, by C. G. Gunther's Sons

Evening coat

C. G. Gunther's Sons · ca. 1930

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla wiemanniana Günther et al.

Potentilla wiemanniana Günther et al.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/5/93

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Accessory set, by C. G. Gunther's Sons

Accessory set

C. G. Gunther's Sons · 1890–99

Public domainThe Met
Clematis haenkeana C. Presl

Clematis haenkeana C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening coat, by C. G. Gunther's Sons

Evening coat

C. G. Gunther's Sons · 1914

Public domainThe Met
Potentilla wiemanniana Günther et al.

Potentilla wiemanniana Günther et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jun 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tippet, by C. G. Gunther's Sons

Tippet

C. G. Gunther's Sons · ca. 1865

Public domainThe Met
Notanthera heterophyllus G. Don

Notanthera heterophyllus G. Don

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

Public domainThe Met
Adiantum raddianum C. Presl

Adiantum raddianum C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagdhorn in G, by Jacob Schmidt

Jagdhorn in G

Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Asplenium triphyllum C. Presl

Asplenium triphyllum C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes after historical painters, by Yun Xiang

Landscapes after historical painters

Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

Public domainThe Met
Barbula icmadophila Schimp. ex C. Müll.

Barbula icmadophila Schimp. ex C. Müll.

Artist not stated in the record · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Rebecca, by Eugène Delacroix

The Abduction of Rebecca

Eugène Delacroix · 1846

Public domainThe Met
Bromelia hieronymi Mez in Mart.

Bromelia hieronymi Mez in Mart.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand), by Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

Ọ́bà with Sacrificial Animals from the Ézọ́mọ's Ikẹ̀gòbọ̀ (Altar to the Hand)

Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Adiantum raddianum C. Presl

Adiantum raddianum C. Presl

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Crossbow Bolts

Six Crossbow Bolts

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century; 14.25.1576g, probably 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Serpocaulon gilliesii (C. Chr.) A.R. Sm.

Serpocaulon gilliesii (C. Chr.) A.R. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cittern, by Joachim Tielke

Cittern

Joachim Tielke · ca. 1685

Public domainThe Met
Asplenium sellowianum (Hieron.) C. Presl ex Hieron.

Asplenium sellowianum (Hieron.) C. Presl ex Hieron.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. 1075 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 1635107 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 2026-09-06 06:05 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.