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 “Cradle with stand” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 15:59 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.
Cradle

Cradle

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–90

Public domainThe Met
Cradle with stand

Cradle with stand

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by William Sprats

Stand

William Sprats · 1778–81

Public domainThe Met
Six Designs for a Child's Bed

Six Designs for a Child's Bed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Cast iron dictionary stand used by Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph

Cast iron dictionary stand used by Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

Handle Depicting a Lion Subduing a Nubian

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Woman with Two Children, by Jérôme-François Chantereau, French, ca.1710 – 1757

Woman with Two Children

Jérôme-François Chantereau, French, ca.1710 – 1757 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with pine trees

Dish with pine trees

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Lunette of Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette of Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. Joseph

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet on stand

Cabinet on stand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Lamentation over Christ, by Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786

Lamentation over Christ

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, Italian, 1746–1786 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zemí cohoba stand, by Taíno artist(s)

Zemí cohoba stand

Taíno artist(s) · ca. 1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet on stand, by Jan van Mekeren

Cabinet on stand

Jan van Mekeren · ca. 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS), by American Rocket Society

Rocket Test Stand No. 2, American Rocket Society (ARS)

American Rocket Society · 1938-1941

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze footbath with its stand

Bronze footbath with its stand

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

Public domainThe Met
Stand, by Daniel Van Voorhis

Stand

Daniel Van Voorhis · 1790–1800

Public domainThe Met
Brahma

Brahma

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter of the 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Bronze rod tripod stand

Bronze rod tripod stand

Artist not stated in the record · early 6th century BCE

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. 6637 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 256588 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 15:59 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.