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. 21 shown for “Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1898” — 58 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:47 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.
Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1898

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, 1898

Artist not stated in the record · 1898

Public domainThe Met
Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Wine Glass Commemorating Prince William V (1748–1806), Governor of the Netherlands, and Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751–1820)

Artist not stated in the record · 1767–1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, by The Limbourg Brothers

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry

The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · 1480–89

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child, by Dieric Bouts

Virgin and Child

Dieric Bouts · 1475–99

Public domainThe Met
Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes

Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Goblet Celebrating the Marriage of Coenraad Jan van Zuylen van Nievelt (1716–67) and Theodora Wilhelmina van Lynden (1727–96)

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin

Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Nitella acuminata A. Braun ex Wallm.

Nitella acuminata A. Braun ex Wallm.

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jun 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Corvus corone cornix

Corvus corone cornix

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Nov 1846

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Juan de Flandes · ca. 1496

Public domainThe Met
Carex ouachitana Kral et al.

Carex ouachitana Kral et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, by Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Lemna minor L.

Lemna minor L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Oct 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wolf and Fox Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens

Wolf and Fox Hunt

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity, by Gerard David

The Nativity

Gerard David · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Coronation of the Virgin and related subjects

Coronation of the Virgin and related subjects

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1515

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. 18 matched · 18 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. 3030704 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 05:47 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.