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. 12 shown for “Child's Shirt” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 01:19 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Child's Shirt

Child's Shirt

Artist not stated in the record · 650–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Child's Shirt

Child's Shirt

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
House Altarpiece

House Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta statuette of a boy

Terracotta statuette of a boy

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Children Teasing a Cat, by Annibale Carracci

Two Children Teasing a Cat

Annibale Carracci

Public domainThe Met
Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1210

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciatory Angel (left wing); Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist and (above) the Virgin Annunciate (right wing), by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels and Saints John the Baptist and James the Great and (above) the Annunciatory Angel (left wing); Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist and (above) the Virgin Annunciate (right wing)

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · ca. 1400–1410

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation, by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1390s

Public domainThe Met
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859), by Marie Guillemine Benoist

Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)

Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802

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. 28 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 01:19 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.