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 “Christian Richter” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 01:44 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.
John Churchill (1650–1722), First Duke of Marlborough, by Christian Richter

John Churchill (1650–1722), First Duke of Marlborough

Christian Richter

Public domainThe Met
Pewter Box

Pewter Box

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Transience of Life, by Christian Richter

Allegory of the Transience of Life

Christian Richter · 1618

Public domainThe Met
Merismopedia affixum P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Merismopedia affixum P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alte und neue Kinderlieder, Fabeln, Sprüche und Räthsel, by Adrian Ludwig Richter

Alte und neue Kinderlieder, Fabeln, Sprüche und Räthsel

Adrian Ludwig Richter · 1849

Public domainThe Met
Chroococcus obliteratus P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Chroococcus obliteratus P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child

Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Public domainThe Met
Aphanothece conferta P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Aphanothece conferta P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl Base with a Marriage Scene

Bowl Base with a Marriage Scene

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Hydrocoleum hieronymii P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Hydrocoleum hieronymii P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold pin with bud finial

Gold pin with bud finial

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Gloeocapsa reicheltii P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Gloeocapsa reicheltii P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her, by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her

Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

Public domainThe Met
Gongrosira schmidlei P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Gongrosira schmidlei P. Richter in Hauck & P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold ring: on bezel, lion

Gold ring: on bezel, lion

Artist not stated in the record · early 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Aphanothece nidulans P. Richter in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Aphanothece nidulans P. Richter in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Protococcus grumosus P. Richter

Protococcus grumosus P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Public domainThe Met
Oscillatoria scandens P. Richter

Oscillatoria scandens P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jug with Handles

Hexagonal Jug with Handles

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–mid-7th century

Public domainThe Met
Nostoc wollnyanum P. Richter in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Nostoc wollnyanum P. Richter in Wittr. & Nordstedt

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Mar 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hexagonal Jug

Hexagonal Jug

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–mid-7th century

Public domainThe Met
Scytonema hansgirgianum P. Richter

Scytonema hansgirgianum P. Richter

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1883

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. 52 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 13492 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-03 01:44 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.