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. 21 shown for “Du Casse” — 51 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:12 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.
Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt, by Du Casse

Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt

Du Casse · 1844–46

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus montis-fontium M. Schmid

Phyllanthus montis-fontium M. Schmid

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Dec 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt, by Du Casse

Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt

Du Casse · 1844–46

Public domainThe Met
Xanthostemon sp.

Xanthostemon sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt, by Du Casse

Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt

Du Casse · 1844–46

Public domainThe Met
Ginkgo biloba L.

Ginkgo biloba L.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt, by Du Casse

Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt

Du Casse · 1844–46

Public domainThe Met
Pycnandra francii (Guillaumin & Dubard) Swenson & Munzinger

Pycnandra francii (Guillaumin & Dubard) Swenson & Munzinger

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Mar 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Francesco Francia

Madonna and Child

Francesco Francia · 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Olfersia cervina (L.) Kunze

Olfersia cervina (L.) Kunze

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1897 to Jan 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Budapest Master

The Annunciation

Budapest Master

Public domainThe Met
Baloghia montana (Müll. Arg.) Pax

Baloghia montana (Müll. Arg.) Pax

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Time over Fame

The Triumph of Time over Fame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500–1530

Public domainThe Met
Didymoglossum angustifrons Fée

Didymoglossum angustifrons Fée

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscape, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

Landscape

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · ca. 1840

Public domainThe Met
Cyathea grandifolia Willd. var. grandifolia

Cyathea grandifolia Willd. var. grandifolia

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Apr 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Experts, by Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Experts

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps · 1837

Public domainThe Met
Saccoloma domingense (Spreng.) C. Chr.

Saccoloma domingense (Spreng.) C. Chr.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Didymoglossum hymenoides (Hedw.) Copel.

Didymoglossum hymenoides (Hedw.) Copel.

Artist not stated in the record · 1893 to 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cyathea grandifolia Willd. var. grandifolia

Cyathea grandifolia Willd. var. grandifolia

Artist not stated in the record · pres que conte l'amme 1894 17

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blechnum binervatum (Poir.) C.V. Morton & Lellinger

Blechnum binervatum (Poir.) C.V. Morton & Lellinger

Artist not stated in the record · 1893 to 1895

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 55081 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 2026-08-27 05:12 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.