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 “Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:30 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.
Charity, by Guido Reni

Charity

Guido Reni · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Design for an Engraved Tazza with an Allegory of Charity

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with a Portrait of the Duke of Alba as Commander of Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1578

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Carlo Cignani

Charity

Carlo Cignani · ca. 1680

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Design for a Tazza with a Portrait of William of Orange as Commander of Wisdom

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Catholic Faith, by Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Design for an Engraved Tazza with the Head of a Jester and a Satyr, representing Pride and Folly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table clock with calendar, by Lucien Falize

Table clock with calendar

Lucien Falize · 1881

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Knife Handle Showing Charity

Design for a Knife Handle Showing Charity

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Charity, by Cesare Dandini

Charity

Cesare Dandini · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Cartouche Representing an Allegory of the Painter, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

Design for a Cartouche Representing an Allegory of the Painter

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegory of the Planets and Continents

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1752

Public domainThe Met
LA MUSIQUE., by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA MUSIQUE.

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737–1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Pendant with Charity and Her Children

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
L'HISTOIRE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

L'HISTOIRE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tazza cover

Tazza cover

Artist not stated in the record · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
LARCHITECTURE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LARCHITECTURE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Milk Pot, by John C. Moore

Milk Pot

John C. Moore · 1850

Public domainThe Met
LA SCULPTURE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA SCULPTURE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1737

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware, by Willem Claesz Heda

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware

Willem Claesz Heda · 1635

Public domainThe Met
LA PHARMACIE, by Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761

LA PHARMACIE

Jacques de Lajoüe, French, 1687–1761 · 1738

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitellius tazza

Vitellius tazza

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1587–99, foot added after mid-19th century

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Silver Serving Pieces, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Designs for Silver Serving Pieces

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th 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. 1747 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. 2939125 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-02 21:30 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.