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 “Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:43 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.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

Case (Inrō) with Design of Sages Seated on Verandah, One holding a Fan

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

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case, by Unidentified

Tintype of two seated men in wooden and velvet case

Unidentified · 1870s - 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Qur'an Case

Qur'an Case

Artist not stated in the record · second half 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate), by Bellay, French, active from 1734

Design for a Hand Fan (Right Plate)

Bellay, French, active from 1734 · ca.1734–37

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (pendule en cartel), by Jean Godde l'aîné

Wall clock (pendule en cartel)

Jean Godde l'aîné · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Four Figures in a Fantastical Garden

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

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

Public domainThe Met
Hand Fan Design with a Chinoiserie Landscape and Ornament, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Hand Fan Design with a Chinoiserie Landscape and Ornament

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Seated on Verandah

Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Sages Seated on Verandah

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

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Ornament and Cases, by Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after

Designs for Ornament and Cases

Pierre Bourdon, French, ca. 1656 – 1708 after · ca. 1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Nude Study of "Comedy" for Headband, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Nude Study of "Comedy" for Headband

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated hollow figure with helmet, by Las Bocas artist(s)

Seated hollow figure with helmet

Las Bocas artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
TAO KOU ou Religieuse de Tau à la Chine

TAO KOU ou Religieuse de Tau à la Chine

Artist not stated in the record · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for Portraits, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Sketches for Portraits

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · ca. 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

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. 86 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3995721 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 10:43 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.