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 Overing” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:36 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.
Monteith, by Charles Overing

Monteith

Charles Overing · 1695–96

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of airmail pilot Charles Ames

Photograph of airmail pilot Charles Ames

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pocket canteen (traveling set), by Charles Overing

Pocket canteen (traveling set)

Charles Overing · 1709/10

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of Preston Taylor as a drummer with the 116th USCT

Carte-de-visite of Preston Taylor as a drummer with the 116th USCT

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Alexandre Charles Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac (1743–1815)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Crandall’s Improved District School playset made by Charles M. Crandall

Crandall’s Improved District School playset made by Charles M. Crandall

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Design for Scribner's Insignia, by Homer Wayland Colby, American, 1874–1950

Design for Scribner's Insignia

Homer Wayland Colby, American, 1874–1950 · 1908–09

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand, by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1817

Public domainThe Met
Tamba ware bottle for candy pellets

Tamba ware bottle for candy pellets

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree, by Thomas Toft

Display dish with Charles II (1630–1685) in a tree

Thomas Toft · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style

Shiga ware cylindrical tea bowl in Oribe style

Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Clef en console et tête, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Clef en console et tête

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835), by baron François Gérard

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

baron François Gérard · ca. 1804

Public domainThe Met
Tea ceremony water jar, by Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854)

Tea ceremony water jar

Eiraku Hozen 永楽保全 (1795-1854) · 1827-1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chocolate Pot, by Tiffany & Co.

Chocolate Pot

Tiffany & Co. · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Bobolink, by Ernest Thompson Seton, American, 1860–1946

Bobolink

Ernest Thompson Seton, American, 1860–1946 · 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Flowers of the seasons, by Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Flowers of the seasons

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643) · 1600-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Street in Grasse, by Charles Nègre

A Street in Grasse

Charles Nègre · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Flowers and a brook

Flowers and a brook

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters, by Eugène Delacroix

Saada, the Wife of Abraham Ben-Chimol, and Préciada, One of Their Daughters

Eugène Delacroix · 1832

Public domainThe Met
Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses, by Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871)

Tea bowl with design of autumn grasses

Kashu Mimpei (1796-1871) · mid 19th century

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. 2198 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 162552 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-08-28 07:36 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.