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. 20 shown for “Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off” — 34 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 11:32 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.
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1756

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore; the eyelet broken off

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with an eyelet and also a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 1550-1307 BCE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Eye-bead, with a lateral bore

Eye-bead, with a lateral bore

Artist not stated in the record · 305 BCE-14 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware, by Willem Claesz Heda

Still Life with Oysters, a Silver Tazza, and Glassware

Willem Claesz Heda · 1635

Public domainThe Met
Black bodice with lace collar and jet beading, by Unidentified

Black bodice with lace collar and jet beading

Unidentified · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hagar in the Wilderness, by Camille Corot

Hagar in the Wilderness

Camille Corot · 1835

Public domainThe Met
Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883

Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless, by Douglas Aircraft Company

Douglas SBD-6 Dauntless

Douglas Aircraft Company · 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome, by Master of the Munich Marian Panels

Virgin and Child with a Donor Presented by Saint Jerome

Master of the Munich Marian Panels · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara, by Hans Memling

Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara

Hans Memling · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar), by Swing Painter

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Swing Painter · ca. 540–530 BCE

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. 99 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 11:32 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.