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 Roades” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 14:07 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.
Tankard, by Charles Roades

Tankard

Charles Roades · 1679–80

Public domainThe Met
Rumex altissimus Alph. Wood

Rumex altissimus Alph. Wood

Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1987

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair, by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair

Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66

Public domainThe Met
Ambrosia bidentata Michx.

Ambrosia bidentata Michx.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Aug 1875 to 27 Sep 1875

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

A Street in Grasse

Charles Nègre · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Carex longii Mack.

Carex longii Mack.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by André Charles Boulle

Commode

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Asclepias variegata L.

Asclepias variegata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Crataegus viridis L.

Crataegus viridis L.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation of Christ, by Simon Marmion

The Lamentation of Christ

Simon Marmion · ca. 1473

Public domainThe Met
Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Rich. ex Steud.

Limnobium spongia (Bosc) Rich. ex Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hamlet of Optevoz, by Charles-François Daubigny

The Hamlet of Optevoz

Charles-François Daubigny · ca. 1852

Public domainThe Met
Acanthospermum microcarpum B.L. Rob.

Acanthospermum microcarpum B.L. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clouds, by Thomas Cole

Clouds

Thomas Cole · ca. 1838

Public domainThe Met
Tephrosia decumbens Benth.

Tephrosia decumbens Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Apr 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Panel from a Portable Shrine: The Descent of the Buddha from Trayastrimsha Heaven

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Rorippa sessiliflora (Nutt.) Hitchc.

Rorippa sessiliflora (Nutt.) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, by Jean Pucelle

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France

Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28

Public domainThe Met
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Sida sp.

Sida sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Mar 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1757

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis sp.

Eragrostis sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Mar 1983

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. 180 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 354387 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 14:07 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.