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. 16 shown for “Charles Coxon” — 44 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:46 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.
Rockingham “Distin Family Band” garden seat, by Charles Coxon

Rockingham “Distin Family Band” garden seat

Charles Coxon · ca. 1849–50

Public domainThe Met
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, by Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by E. & W. Bennett Pottery

Pitcher

E. & W. Bennett Pottery · 1850–57

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by E. & W. Bennett Pottery

Pitcher

E. & W. Bennett Pottery · ca. 1850–56

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pitcher, by Millington, Astbury and Poulson

Pitcher

Millington, Astbury and Poulson · ca. 1861

Public domainThe Met
Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, by Alexander Anderson, 1775 - 1870

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Alexander Anderson, 1775 - 1870 · c. 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, by Unidentified Artist

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Unidentified Artist · 1796

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, by John Trumbull, 6 Jun 1756 - 10 Nov 1843

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

John Trumbull, 6 Jun 1756 - 10 Nov 1843 · 1791

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Carroll, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Charles Carroll

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Lindbergh, by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Charles Lindbergh

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Lindbergh, by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Charles Lindbergh

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Lindbergh, by Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s

Charles Lindbergh

Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · 1927

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 127347 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 18:46 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.