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 “Charles Faris” — 58 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:48 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.
Creamer, by Charles Faris

Creamer

Charles Faris · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Jenny Lind, by Thomas Faris, 1814 - ?

Jenny Lind

Thomas Faris, 1814 - ? · 1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffeepot, by Charles Faris

Coffeepot

Charles Faris · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora pallida L.

Passiflora pallida L.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sugar Urn, by Charles Faris

Sugar Urn

Charles Faris · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora pallida L.

Passiflora pallida L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora pallida L.

Passiflora pallida L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Winslow Homer, by Thomas A. Gray, active 1863

Winslow Homer

Thomas A. Gray, active 1863 · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Marriage Feast at Cana, by Juan de Flandes

The Marriage Feast at Cana

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Public domainThe Met
Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke

Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Mar 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Judgment, by Joos van Cleve

The Last Judgment

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525–30

Public domainThe Met
Sida rhombifolia L.

Sida rhombifolia L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation, by Master of the Saint Barbara Legend

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Corchorus aestuans L.

Corchorus aestuans L.

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Corchorus aestuans L.

Corchorus aestuans L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq.

Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Petrus Christus

The Annunciation

Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Public domainThe Met
Sida acuta Burm. f.

Sida acuta Burm. f.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1921

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. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 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. 128260 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 2026-09-07 09:48 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.