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 “Female Playing Badminton” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 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.
Terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tambourine

Terracotta statuette of a woman playing the tambourine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 600–480 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Female Playing Badminton

Female Playing Badminton

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure playing the bass-viol, by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

Female figure playing the bass-viol

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · before 1903

Public domainThe Met
Four of Hearts, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Four of Hearts

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female figure playing violin, by Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

Female figure playing violin

Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier · before 1903

Public domainThe Met
Fan leaf

Fan leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of a Female Nude, by Henri Lehmann

Study of a Female Nude

Henri Lehmann · 1840

Public domainThe Met
Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female musician

Female musician

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Interworld Marketing Inc. badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Interworld Marketing Inc. badminton racket from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · after 1970

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female musician

Female musician

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chimneypiece at Badminton House, Gloucestershire

Design for a Chimneypiece at Badminton House, Gloucestershire

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Musicians

Female Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Three of Diamonds, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Three of Diamonds

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female Musicians, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Female Musicians

Charles K. Wilkinson · 1921–1922; original ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ace of Hearts, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Ace of Hearts

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated female figure, by Nayarit artist(s)

Seated female figure

Nayarit artist(s) · 100–400 CE

Public domainThe Met
Six of Clubs, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Six of Clubs

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature female effigy, by Inca artist(s)

Miniature female effigy

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Queen of Diamonds, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Queen of Diamonds

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aegis of a female goddess

Aegis of a female goddess

Artist not stated in the record · 664–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Queen of Spades, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Queen of Spades

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female musician with lute

Female musician with lute

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th century

Public domainThe Met
Queen of Hearts, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Queen of Hearts

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

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. 444 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. 548530 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-02 22:18 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.