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 “Closed Burgonet with Falling Buffe” — 61 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:12 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.
Closed Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Closed Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Burgonet with Falling Buffe

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet with Falling Buffe, by Pompeo della Cesa

Close Helmet with Falling Buffe

Pompeo della Cesa · ca. 1590–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closed Burgonet

Closed Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630; bottom front and back collar lames, later restorations

Public domainThe Met
Border

Border

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closed Burgonet

Closed Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Closed Burgonet

Closed Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–60

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close Helmet, by Gian Giacomo Negroli

Close Helmet

Gian Giacomo Negroli · ca. 1510–20

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke, by Royal Workshops at Greenwich

Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke

Royal Workshops at Greenwich · ca. 1585–86

Public domainThe Met
Costume dress for Lady in Red from for colored girls... on Broadway, by Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995

Costume dress for Lady in Red from for colored girls... on Broadway

Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995 · 1976-1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor with Matching Shaffron and Saddle Plates

Armor with Matching Shaffron and Saddle Plates

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falling Buffe, by Kolman Helmschmid

Falling Buffe

Kolman Helmschmid · ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Grey pinstriped dress designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Grey pinstriped dress designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Costume dress for Lady in Orange from for colored girls... on Broadway, by Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995

Costume dress for Lady in Orange from for colored girls... on Broadway

Judy Dearing, American, 1940 - 1995 · 1976-1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sallet of Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), by Lorenz Helmschmid

Sallet of Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519)

Lorenz Helmschmid · ca. 1490–95

Public domainThe Met
Cream wool cape designed by Arthur McGee, by Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019

Cream wool cape designed by Arthur McGee

Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

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. 21 matched · 21 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. 290303 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-26 22:12 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.