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 “Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 21:27 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.
Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines

Capital with a Pattern of Leaves and Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 15-17, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with a Pattern of Grape Leaves and Vines

Capital with a Pattern of Grape Leaves and Vines

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase on a column stand, by Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles

Vase on a column stand

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles · after 1771–72, mounts ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Panel and fragments

Panel and fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sideboard Table, by Thomas Seymour

Sideboard Table

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat fragments

Waistcoat fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Leaves

Capital with Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Papyrus Capital

Composite Papyrus Capital

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Column from the Temple of Solomon, by Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65

The Column from the Temple of Solomon

Nicolas Beatrizet, French, active in Rome, ca. 1515–65 · 1570–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Capital with Palmettes and Leaves

Capital with Palmettes and Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · late 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Ribbon

Ribbon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a valance

Fragment of a valance

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1565–80

Public domainThe Met
Bedcover

Bedcover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves

Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

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. 2151 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. 4066569 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 21:27 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.