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 “Cameo with Saint Nicholas” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:39 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.
Cameo with Saint Nicholas

Cameo with Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Albumen Print of the congregation of St. Nicholas Church in Maryland

Albumen Print of the congregation of St. Nicholas Church in Maryland

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cameo with the Fasting of Saint Nicholas

Cameo with the Fasting of Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1250

Public domainThe Met
A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

A Votive Image of a Boy Presented by his Parents to St. Nicholas of Bari

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Brice, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Brice

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Philip Norborne Nicholas, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Philip Norborne Nicholas

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blessing Bishop (Saint Nicholas of Bari)

Blessing Bishop (Saint Nicholas of Bari)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Gouin Dufief, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Gouin Dufief

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas DuBois, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas DuBois

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
Denis Nicholas Cottineau, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Denis Nicholas Cottineau

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Cameo brooch and bracelet

Cameo brooch and bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cameo with Saint George

Cameo with Saint George

Artist not stated in the record · 1100–1300

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Cabell, Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Cabell, Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories, by Nicolas Noël Boutet

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories

Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas De Peyster, Jr., by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas De Peyster, Jr.

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1797

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child, by Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo)

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving a Child

Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo) · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
The Charity of Saint Nicholas, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Charity of Saint Nicholas

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 - 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving the Birds, by Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo)

Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Reviving the Birds

Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo) · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Nicholas Van Dyke, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Nicholas Van Dyke

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1802

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. 239 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. 291985 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 07:39 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.