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 no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:46 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.
Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59), by Jean Cousin the Elder

Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

Jean Cousin the Elder · ca. 1555

Public domainThe Met
Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design no. 15 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elements of an Italian Light-Cavalry Armor alla Tedesca (in the German Fashion)

Elements of an Italian Light-Cavalry Armor alla Tedesca (in the German Fashion)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design no. 339 for a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Landscapes, Seasonal Flowers, and Poem

Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Landscapes, Seasonal Flowers, and Poem

Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble)

Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished design for a Waistcoat

Unfinished design for a Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shirt of Mail and Plate

Shirt of Mail and Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat, Unfinished

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Unfinished Design for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of Pattern No. 863 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · ca. 1785

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. 736 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. 4245548 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 12:46 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.