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 “Francesco Antonio Meloni” — 40 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:23 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.

Portrait of Francesco Berni (c. 1497-1535)

Portrait of Francesco Berni (c. 1497-1535)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Ceiling (?) Painting with the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Francesco Maria de'Medici, by Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, Italian, 1652 - 1726

Design for a Ceiling (?) Painting with the Coat of Arms of Cardinal Francesco Maria de'Medici

Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, Italian, 1652 - 1726 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melonis guadalupae Parker, 1964

Melonis guadalupae Parker, 1964

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Rugocythereis melonis Yasuhara et al., 2013

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Strombella melonis

Strombella melonis

Artist not stated in the record · 23 May 1890

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nude Man Seen from Behind (Narcissus?), by Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino, Italian, 1503 – 1540

Nude Man Seen from Behind (Narcissus?)

Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino, Italian, 1503 – 1540 · 1527–1530

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. 37254 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 10:23 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.