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 “F.G.” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:39 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.
Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Marble stele (grave marker) with a youth and little girl, and a capital and finial in the form of a sphinx

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup, by F.G.

Cup

F.G. · 1777

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

Artist not stated in the record · dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 17 May 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 440–430 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature, by G. F. R. Molé

Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

G. F. R. Molé · 1778 [to 1787]

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 23 Early Stereograph Views of British Cathedrals], by Unknown

[Group of 23 Early Stereograph Views of British Cathedrals]

Unknown · 1860s–80s

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Group of 5 Early Stereograph Views of British Hotels and Inns], by Unknown

[Group of 5 Early Stereograph Views of British Hotels and Inns]

Unknown · 1860s–80s

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Self-Portrait, by Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

Self-Portrait

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1660

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jun 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by F.G.T

Dish

F.G.T · 1794–97

Public domainThe Met
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (F.G. Mey.) Cronquist

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Heliconia gracilis G.S. Daniels & F.G. Stiles

Heliconia gracilis G.S. Daniels & F.G. Stiles

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Jan 1975

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. 2817 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4252 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 19:39 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.