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. 12 shown for “Fantastic winged feline” — 40 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:58 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds, by François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds

François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755 · 1736

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 48, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 48, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway with nude figure and winged creatures, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Doorway with nude figure and winged creatures

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fantastical Landscape, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Design for a Fantastical Landscape

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1756

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 46, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), by Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618

Plate 46, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618 · 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Siren Earrings, by Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815

Siren Earrings

Fortunato Pio Castellani & Sons, Italy, founded 1815 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for Three Side Wings with Part of Proscenium Frame

Sketch for Three Side Wings with Part of Proscenium Frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Design for a Decorative Burgonet

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse

The Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1496-97

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Dado

Project for a Dado

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Paper Knife

Design for a Paper Knife

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1875

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 25173 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 12:58 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.