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 “Dish depicting a Wedding Procession” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:09 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.
Dish depicting a Wedding Procession

Dish depicting a Wedding Procession

Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Funerary Procession, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Funerary Procession

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by The Art Crafts Shop

Dish

The Art Crafts Shop · ca. 1904

Public domainThe Met
Dish with the Four Continents

Dish with the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Silver handle from a serving dish

Silver handle from a serving dish

Artist not stated in the record · early 3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Sucre de Canne (Sugar Cane) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Sucre de Canne (Sugar Cane) from the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1819–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with mandarin ducks and lotuses

Dish with mandarin ducks and lotuses

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

Public domainThe Met
Plate

Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Scenes of a wedding, by Delmes

Scenes of a wedding

Delmes · ca. 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of the Gospels, by Northern Highlands artist

Book of the Gospels

Northern Highlands artist · late 14th–early 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Plate Depicting Hendrik Durven, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (VOC), and His Wife

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Butter Dish, by Krider, Peter L.

Butter Dish

Krider, Peter L. · 1851 - 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456), by Hans Memling

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)

Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Wedding Procession", by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Study for "Wedding Procession"

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1872–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V, by Hans Daucher

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V

Hans Daucher · ca. 1522

Public domainThe Met
Marriage Certificate of Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins, by Unidentified

Marriage Certificate of Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins

Unidentified · October 30, 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wedding Procession of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Wedding Procession of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Wedding Procession", by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Study for "Wedding Procession"

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1872–1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
The Wedding Procession: Couple walking left, woman wearing a wreath

The Wedding Procession: Couple walking left, woman wearing a wreath

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1545

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lucretia, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Lucretia

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1508–10

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Wedding Procession", by Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923

Study for "Wedding Procession"

Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1872–1875

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. 38 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 1802357 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 17:09 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.