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. 20 shown for “Christoph Stange” — 48 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 10:48 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.
Wine can, by Christoph Stange

Wine can

Christoph Stange · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ruellia ciliatiflora Hook.

Ruellia ciliatiflora Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Bernhard Strigel

Portrait of a Woman

Bernhard Strigel · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Poa nemoralis L.

Poa nemoralis L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Agapitus of Praeneste in the Arena; (interior) The Beheading of Saint Agapitus of Praeneste, by Swiss Painter

Saint Agapitus of Praeneste in the Arena; (interior) The Beheading of Saint Agapitus of Praeneste

Swiss Painter · ca. 1500–1505

Public domainThe Met
Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) sp.

Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Remigius Replenishing the Barrel of Wine; (interior) Saint Remigius and the Burning Wheat, by Swiss Painter

Saint Remigius Replenishing the Barrel of Wine; (interior) Saint Remigius and the Burning Wheat

Swiss Painter · ca. 1500–1505

Public domainThe Met
Cestrum megalophyllum Dunal

Cestrum megalophyllum Dunal

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Sep 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?), by Ulrich Apt the Elder

Portrait of a Married Couple (Lorenz Kraffter and Honesta Merz?)

Ulrich Apt the Elder · 1512

Public domainThe Met
Cachrys alpina M. Bieb.

Cachrys alpina M. Bieb.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1909 to 25 Jul 1909

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Eupatorium pilosum Walter

Eupatorium pilosum Walter

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525), by Hans Maler

Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525)

Hans Maler · 1525

Public domainThe Met
Picoides leucotos leucotos

Picoides leucotos leucotos

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Oct 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537), by Hans Maler

Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537)

Hans Maler · 1517

Public domainThe Met
Juniperus sp.

Juniperus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jan 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sagittaria intermedia Micheli in A. DC.

Sagittaria intermedia Micheli in A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Nov 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phlebodium aureum (L.) J. Sm.

Phlebodium aureum (L.) J. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/2/29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.

Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Jul 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Conocarpus erectus L. var. erectus

Conocarpus erectus L. var. erectus

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Mar 1938

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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6941 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-08 10:48 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.