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. 23 shown for “Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model” — 53 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:08 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.
Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Hexagonal Jar (Rokkaku-tsubo) with Paulownia and Geometric Design

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model

Foot Warmer and Lantern Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun, by 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki

Mosque Lamp of Amir Qawsun

'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Barmaki · ca. 1329–35

Public domainThe Met
Lantern and Foot Warmer Patent Model

Lantern and Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1867-08-06

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-06-10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-12-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ's Descent into Hell, by Hieronymus Bosch

Christ's Descent into Hell

Hieronymus Bosch

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-09-26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Piano, by Steinway & Sons

Grand Piano

Steinway & Sons · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1859-07-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation, by Master of the Saint Barbara Legend

Abner's Messenger before David; The Queen of Sheba Bringing Gifts to Solomon; The Annunciation

Master of the Saint Barbara Legend · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Hassock-Foot Warmer Patent Model

Hassock-Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1879-09-16

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedal Harp, by Lyon & Healy

Pedal Harp

Lyon & Healy · 1891–95

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer for Vehicles Patent Model

Foot Warmer for Vehicles Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1876-12-12

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Street vendor, by Mennecy

Street vendor

Mennecy · ca. 1750–60

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1862-07-22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Artist not stated in the record · first half of the 16th century?

Public domainThe Met
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1847-03-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot), by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

Severo Calzetta da Ravenna · first half of the 16th century?

Public domainThe Met
Sad Iron Heater, Nurse Lamp, and Foot Stove Patent Model

Sad Iron Heater, Nurse Lamp, and Foot Stove Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1868-03-24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foot Warmer Patent Model

Foot Warmer Patent Model

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-05-16

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1476534 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-01 14:08 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.