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 “Double Capital with Birds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:24 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.
Double Capital with Birds

Double Capital with Birds

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–13th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital with Masks and Birds

Double Capital with Masks and Birds

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1140–60

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistling vessel, by Maya artist(s)

Whistling vessel

Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital

Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Double Door and Overdoor, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Whistle

Double Whistle

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée, by André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787

Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée

André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital

Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composite Papyrus Capital

Composite Papyrus Capital

Artist not stated in the record · 380–343 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tusk, by Kongo artist

Tusk

Kongo artist · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged Double Capital

Engaged Double Capital

Artist not stated in the record · Late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double bowl, by Inca artist(s)

Double bowl

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Six capitals of columns, one of a pillar, with alternative suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with flowers and birds

Dish with flowers and birds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double ba-bird

Double ba-bird

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Capital with Vine Tendrils

Double Capital with Vine Tendrils

Artist not stated in the record · 1170–80

Public domainThe Met
Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo, by Dapper Dan, American, born 1945

Red velveteen jacket and pants with Fendi logo

Dapper Dan, American, born 1945 · ca. 1990

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. 619 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. 847000 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-02 17:24 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.