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. 22 shown for “Cassone (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:22 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.
Cassone (one of a pair)

Cassone (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Plain Cassone, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Design for Plain Cassone

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1900–05

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone (one of a pair)

Cassone (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

One of a Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 16th century (rebuilt, with replacements)

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Pair of Covered Confinement Cups

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1525

Public domainThe Met
Cassone in Renaissance Style, by A.N. Davenport Co.

Cassone in Renaissance Style

A.N. Davenport Co. · 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · 1575–90 (rebuilt, with replacements)

Public domainThe Met
Sauceboat (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Sauceboat (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–80 (rebuilt, with later additions)

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone

Cassone

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–80 (rebuilt, with extensive replacements)

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1845–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cassone (one of a pair), by Italian (Florentine?) Painter

Cassone (one of a pair)

Italian (Florentine?) Painter · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cassone (one of a pair), by Italian (Florentine?) Painter

Cassone (one of a pair)

Italian (Florentine?) Painter · second quarter 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

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
Study: A pair of hands, crossed

Study: A pair of hands, crossed

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Trousers

Pair of Trousers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886

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. 4287 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. 3969159 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-04 12:22 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.