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 with Children in Garden” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:17 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 with Children in Garden

Dish with Children in Garden

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

Public domainThe Met
Garden Party of the Children

Garden Party of the Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with children in a garden

Bowl with children in a garden

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

Public domainThe Met
Will of Frederick Smith leaving an enslaved girl named Betty to his wife

Will of Frederick Smith leaving an enslaved girl named Betty to his wife

Artist not stated in the record · March 27, 1802

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1420–1430

Public domainThe Met
Water color; A woman selling roasted corn, by Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn

Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829 · 1827

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with children playing in a garden

Dish with children playing in a garden

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers), by Thomas Gainsborough

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

Thomas Gainsborough · 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fisher Children, by Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930

Fisher Children

Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930 · ca. 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Two Children

Two Children

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Tray with women and boys on a garden terrace

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE PETIT CHARIOT / LES MANGEURS DE CERISES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Cup and saucer with the Chinese story of Sima Guang

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1730

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of three unidentified children in a garden scene by Ball & Sons

Cabinet card of three unidentified children in a garden scene by Ball & Sons

Artist not stated in the record · 1897-1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Large Oval Storage Basket

Large Oval Storage Basket

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1831

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Courtiers in a Rose Garden: A Lady and Two Gentlemen

Courtiers in a Rose Garden: A Lady and Two Gentlemen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1440–50

Public domainThe Met
LE CERVOLANT / LES OISEAUX ATTACHES, by François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755

LE CERVOLANT / LES OISEAUX ATTACHES

François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), by Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)

Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Children Building a House of Cards, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Children Building a House of Cards

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1759

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, by Edouard Manet

The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil

Edouard Manet · 1874

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 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. 378 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. 7464684 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 08:17 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.