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. 15 shown for “Chess Piece, Bishop” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:33 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.
Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Décoration du bal masque donné par le roy dans la grande Galerie du Château de Versailles, à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, la nuit du XXV. au XXVI février. M.D. CCXLV., by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790

Décoration du bal masque donné par le roy dans la grande Galerie du Château de Versailles, à l’occasion du Mariage de Louis Dauphin de France avec Marie Thérèse Infante d’Espagne, la nuit du XXV. au XXVI février. M.D. CCXLV.

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Ein Spieler aus allen liekannten spielen zusamengesetzt (A Player Composed of All Known Games), by Andreas Geiger, Austrian, 1765 - 1856

Ein Spieler aus allen liekannten spielen zusamengesetzt (A Player Composed of All Known Games)

Andreas Geiger, Austrian, 1765 - 1856 · 1840–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

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

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Portrait of Bishop William of Wainelete

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1660-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chess Piece, Bishop

Chess Piece, Bishop

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Chess Piece, King

Chess Piece, King

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Chess Piece, King

Chess Piece, King

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Bishop Chess Piece

Bishop Chess Piece

Artist not stated in the record · 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Chess set

Chess set

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Chess Piece, Pawn

Chess Piece, Pawn

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Chess Piece, Knight

Chess Piece, Knight

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Knight Chess Piece

Knight Chess Piece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
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. 484 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 35408 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:33 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.