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. 21 shown for “Card” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:13 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.
Card

Card

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Porcelain Button

Porcelain Button

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card

Card

Artist not stated in the record · 1809

Public domainThe Met
The Cloisters Playing Cards

The Cloisters Playing Cards

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1475–80

Public domainThe Met
Card table (from a large set), by Giles Grendey

Card table (from a large set)

Giles Grendey · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smallsword Hilt with Storage Case, by Rundell, Bridge and Rundell

Smallsword Hilt with Storage Case

Rundell, Bridge and Rundell · ca. 1785–1800

Public domainThe Met
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table

Card table

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–95

Public domainThe Met
Buttons

Buttons

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card Table, by John Goddard

Card Table

John Goddard · 1760–85

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Card table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Card table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Card table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1805–12

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1767

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne

The Card Players

Paul Cézanne · 1890–92

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. 36636 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 202395 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-31 23:13 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.