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 of Patch Box Cover” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:03 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.
Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Design of Patch Box Cover

Design of Patch Box Cover

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by François-Nicolas Chevance

Box

François-Nicolas Chevance · 1781–82

Public domainThe Met
Patch box and cover

Patch box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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
Revenge

Revenge

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Patch box mounted with miniatures, by John Miers, English, active 1760 – 1810

Patch box mounted with miniatures

John Miers, English, active 1760 – 1810 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box, by Jean-Joseph Barrière

Box

Jean-Joseph Barrière · 1765–66

Public domainThe Met
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sutra box with dragons amid clouds

Sutra box with dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Ecclesiastical cover

Ecclesiastical cover

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · 1750s

Public domainThe Met
Winter Fog in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Winter Fog in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Windmill & Rail Road

Windmill & Rail Road

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Katahdin from Togue Pond, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mt. Katahdin from Togue Pond, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1878–1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Patch box

Patch box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

Public domainThe Met
Mountain River or Lake, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Mountain River or Lake

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Covered box with floral design

Covered box with floral design

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
L'Interieur de l'Abbaye de Westminster (Interior of Westminster Abbey), by Chez Daumont, active 18th century

L'Interieur de l'Abbaye de Westminster (Interior of Westminster Abbey)

Chez Daumont, active 18th 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. 367 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2880526 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-05 07:03 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.