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. 23 shown for “Case for a Goose” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:58 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 for a Goose

Case for a Goose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray

Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case

Case

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–71

Public domainThe Met
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

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

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Rudbeckia hirta L.

Rudbeckia hirta L.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tall Clock, by Thomas Seymour

Tall Clock

Thomas Seymour · 1805–10

Public domainThe Met
Liatris spicata (L.) Willd.

Liatris spicata (L.) Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces, by Lambertus Vrythoff

The Rape of Europa and Mercury and the Three Graces

Lambertus Vrythoff · case ca. 1645, movement ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal), by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watch case, by George Harrison

Watch case

George Harrison · probably ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Painting on Theme of Callisto, by Filippo Falciatore, Italian, active 1737 - 1768

Study for a Painting on Theme of Callisto

Filippo Falciatore, Italian, active 1737 - 1768 · ca. 1750

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
Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Geese Sketches with Figures, East Hampton, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably July 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel) with movement of later date, by Jacques Caffieri

Wall clock (cartel) with movement of later date

Jacques Caffieri · case ca. 1745–49; movement ca. 1756

Public domainThe Met
Instrument case for flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell, by William R. Meinell, American

Instrument case for flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell

William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preserved Goose in Half of a Wooden Case

Preserved Goose in Half of a Wooden Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set

Case Bottom for Folding Traveling Cutlery Set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement, by David Roentgen

Obelisk clock with a Franklin movement

David Roentgen · ca. 1785–90

Public domainThe Met
Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.

Cladium mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr.

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jul 2024

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (horloge de cheminée), by Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain

Mantel clock (horloge de cheminée)

Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain · ca. 1745

Public domainThe Met
Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles

Case for Fork and Knife with Antler and Silver Handles

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
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. 4353 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. 2079845 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:58 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.