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. 16 shown for “Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.” — 45 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:36 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.
Angelica and Medoro, by François Boucher

Angelica and Medoro

François Boucher · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Joos van Cleve

The Holy Family

Joos van Cleve · ca. 1512–13

Public domainThe Met
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Avian Bell

Avian Bell

Artist not stated in the record · 900–1520 CE

Public domainThe Met
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Dichotomaria sp. in Arai et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria diesingiana (Zanardini) Huisman et al.

Dichotomaria diesingiana (Zanardini) Huisman et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1983

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria diesingiana (Zanardini) Huisman et al.

Dichotomaria diesingiana (Zanardini) Huisman et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dichotomaria tenera (Kjellm.) Huisman et al.

Dichotomaria tenera (Kjellm.) Huisman et al.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Nov 1962 and 3 Nov 1962

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7462243 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 2026-09-03 02:36 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.