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. 14 shown for “Document listing Cassius Clay's win-loss record” — 23 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:22 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.
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
Document listing Cassius Clay's win-loss record

Document listing Cassius Clay's win-loss record

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904), by Louis Daniel Nimschke

Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)

Louis Daniel Nimschke · ca. 1850–1900

Public domainThe Met
Document listing Sonny Liston's win-loss record

Document listing Sonny Liston's win-loss record

Artist not stated in the record · February 1964

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in silver

Cuneiform tablet: quittance for a loan in silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet: loan of silver

Cuneiform tablet: loan of silver

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Triangular label impressed with stamp seal: for grain loan

Triangular label impressed with stamp seal: for grain loan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Meissen Manufactory

Vase

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1735

Public domainThe Met
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau), by Sèvres Manufactory

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri à vaisseau)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1758

Public domainThe Met
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair), by Jean-Claude Duplessis

Vase (vase à tête d'éléphant) (one of a pair)

Jean-Claude Duplessis · ca. 1758

Public domainThe Met
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Martin Carlin

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin · ca. 1776

Public domainThe Met
Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée), by Paul Gudin Le Jeune

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)

Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Public domainThe Met
Dish depicting The Death of Saul, by Medici Porcelain Manufactory

Dish depicting The Death of Saul

Medici Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1575–80

Public domainThe Met
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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 2 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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:22 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.