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. 12 shown for “Crossbow, Cranequin and Six Crossbow Bolts” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 19:49 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.

Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Crossbow, Cranequin and Six Crossbow Bolts

Crossbow, Cranequin and Six Crossbow Bolts

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow ca. 1600–1650; cranequin dated 1556

Public domainThe Met
Six Crossbow Bolts

Six Crossbow Bolts

Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century; 14.25.1576g, probably 17th or 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin), by Johann Gottfried Hänisch the Elder

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin)

Johann Gottfried Hänisch the Elder · crossbow, ca. 1720–30; winder, ca. 1575–1600

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin), by Johann Gottfried Hänisch the Elder

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin)

Johann Gottfried Hänisch the Elder · dated 1742

Public domainThe Met
Cranequin (Crossbow Winder)

Cranequin (Crossbow Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1727

Public domainThe Met
Quiver with Eleven Crossbow Bolts

Quiver with Eleven Crossbow Bolts

Artist not stated in the record · quiver, probably early 16th century; bolts, 14th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cranequin

Cranequin

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1575–1650; cranequin dated 1562

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow

Crossbow

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th or early 16th century, and later; date 1584 engraved probably during the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Cranequin (Winder)

Artist not stated in the record · crossbow, ca. 1560–80; cranequin, first half of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pellet and Bolt Crossbow Combined with a Wheel-Lock Gun, by Jacob Floris

Pellet and Bolt Crossbow Combined with a Wheel-Lock Gun

Jacob Floris · ca. 1570–1600

Public domainThe Met
Cranequin from the Armory of Emperor Maximilan I (reigned 1493/1508–19)

Cranequin from the Armory of Emperor Maximilan I (reigned 1493/1508–19)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1505–19

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. 28 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 19:49 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.