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 “Figure of a dwarf” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 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.

Wooden marionette wearing a green velvet suit and bow tie, by William N. Buckner

Wooden marionette wearing a green velvet suit and bow tie

William N. Buckner

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled (man on horse with woman and dog), by Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Untitled (man on horse with woman and dog)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
After a Storm, Amagansett, by Arthur Turnbull Hill, born New York City 1868-died New York City 1929

After a Storm, Amagansett

Arthur Turnbull Hill, born New York City 1868-died New York City 1929 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sisymbrium linifolium (Nutt.) Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Sisymbrium linifolium (Nutt.) Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Protium aracouchini (Aubl.) Marchand

Protium aracouchini (Aubl.) Marchand

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1960

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Court Jester, by Attilio Simonetti, Italian, 1843 - 1925

A Court Jester

Attilio Simonetti, Italian, 1843 - 1925 · 1880–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hypericum majus (A. Gray) Britton

Hypericum majus (A. Gray) Britton

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buxus microphylla var. microphylla 'Morris Dwarf'

Buxus microphylla var. microphylla 'Morris Dwarf'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Thalictrum fendleri Engelm. ex A. Gray

Thalictrum fendleri Engelm. ex A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.

Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panicum trichoides Sw.

Panicum trichoides Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

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. 3856511 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 11:06 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.