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. 18 shown for “Clasp knife with cherub's head” — 46 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:14 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.
Clasp knife with cherub's head

Clasp knife with cherub's head

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Studies of Heads, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Studies of Heads

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Hand bell

Hand bell

Artist not stated in the record · 1572

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ink bamboo, by Li Shan

Ink bamboo

Li Shan · dated 1749

Public domainThe Met
Book Clasp

Book Clasp

Artist not stated in the record · probably 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Gaetano Gandolfi

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Gaetano Gandolfi · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Pocket watch and chain owned by Terrell family, by Unidentified

Pocket watch and chain owned by Terrell family

Unidentified · 1863-1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Sebastiano Ricci

The Baptism of Christ

Sebastiano Ricci · ca. 1713–14

Public domainThe Met
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Child, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Madonna Adoring the Child

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · ca. 1490–95

Public domainThe Met
Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Carving Knife with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cope hood

Cope hood

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frame

Frame

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Ewer

Design for an Ewer

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Pendant with Putti

Design for Pendant with Putti

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Knife Sharpener with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1900

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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 313206 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 01:14 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.