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 “Child's dress” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:26 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.
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group of two women and a child

Group of two women and a child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1500 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and child, by Niccolò Roccatagliata

Virgin and child

Niccolò Roccatagliata · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Emma Van Name, by Joshua Johnson

Emma Van Name

Joshua Johnson · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1864–65

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
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–60

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–55

Public domainThe Met
Child's dress

Child's dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Antonio Rossellino

Madonna and Child with Angels

Antonio Rossellino · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Net and lace child's dress with satin floral ribbon, by Unidentified

Net and lace child's dress with satin floral ribbon

Unidentified · 1910s-1920s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dress

Dress

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant: woman carrying a child

Pendant: woman carrying a child

Artist not stated in the record · 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Little Buffoon, by Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550

The Little Buffoon

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500–1550 · 1542

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. 338 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. 33813 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-31 21:26 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.