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 “Ewer with dancing females within arcades” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:02 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.
Ewer with dancing females within arcades

Ewer with dancing females within arcades

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 6th–7th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Two Friezes

Design for Two Friezes

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dancing Class, by Edgar Degas

The Dancing Class

Edgar Degas · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Title Page

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Pair of Royal Earrings

A Pair of Royal Earrings

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Project for the Decoration of a Bed Alcove, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Project for the Decoration of a Bed Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer in the form of an ostrich and basin, by Marx Weinold

Ewer in the form of an ostrich and basin

Marx Weinold · ca. 1689–92

Public domainThe Met
Veuë de la Fonteine de Tyvoli, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Veuë de la Fonteine de Tyvoli

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662

Public domainThe Met
Jar, by Pipsshank

Jar

Pipsshank · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Parrot, by Gustave Courbet

Woman with a Parrot

Gustave Courbet · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Christ Healing Paralytics near the Pool of Bethesda

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oedipus and the Sphinx, by Gustave Moreau

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Gustave Moreau · 1864

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Carved Trophies, by François Roumier, French, 16..–1748

Designs for Carved Trophies

François Roumier, French, 16..–1748 · 1740-1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Vestige du Septizone de l’Empereur Severe a Rome, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Vestige du Septizone de l’Empereur Severe a Rome

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ewer with Inscription, Horsemen, and Vegetal Decoration, by `Umar ibn al-Hajji Jaldak

Ewer with Inscription, Horsemen, and Vegetal Decoration

`Umar ibn al-Hajji Jaldak · dated 623 AH/1226 CE

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl, by Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575

Designs for Two Ewers and a Swing-Handle Bowl

Luzio Romano, Italian, active 1528 – 1575 · mid- 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723

Design for a Pendant Trophy

René Charpentier, French, 1680 - 1723 · 1738–61

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Smiling figure (Sonriente), by South central Veracruz artist(s)

Smiling figure (Sonriente)

South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Bedroom Furniture

Design for Bedroom Furniture

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Diptych with Scenes from the Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist [above]; John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

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. 55 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 787984 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 08:02 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.