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. 17 shown for “Children of the Abbey, Vol. I” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:58 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.
King Clothar I

King Clothar I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Children of the Abbey, Vol. I

Children of the Abbey, Vol. I

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Children of the Abbey, Vol. II

Children of the Abbey, Vol. II

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ipu Hula (gourd drum)

Ipu Hula (gourd drum)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Men of the 32nd in the Court of the Abbey Echternach, by Peixotto, Ernest Clifford

Men of the 32nd in the Court of the Abbey Echternach

Peixotto, Ernest Clifford · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898

Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English, 1833–1898 · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"King Lear," Act I, Scene I, by Edwin Austin Abbey

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey · 1898

Public domainThe Met
"A Sentiment"

"A Sentiment"

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
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
King Clovis I

King Clovis I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250

Public domainThe Met
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Ukulele

Ukulele

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880

Public domainThe Met
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication, by Denis Diderot

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

Denis Diderot · 1762–72

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

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. 10613 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 3582638 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:58 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.