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 “Eragrostis minor Host” — 50 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:16 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.
Transverse Flute in D-flat

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1826

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tombstone of Abu Sa'd ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hasan Karwaih, by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Astak

Tombstone of Abu Sa'd ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hasan Karwaih

Ahmad ibn Muhammad Astak · dated 545 AH/1150 CE

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, by Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano)

Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano

Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano) · ca. 1632

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harpsichord, by Jacob Kirkman

Harpsichord

Jacob Kirkman · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/10/20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in an Apse, by Robert Campin

Virgin and Child in an Apse

Robert Campin

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa), by Adriaen Isenbrant

Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin (Mater Dolorosa)

Adriaen Isenbrant · ca. 1530–40

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eragrostis minor Host

Eragrostis minor Host

Artist not stated in the record · 188

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 1 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. 38535 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-28 04:16 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.