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. 15 shown for “Franz Fischer” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:50 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.
Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair), by Franz Fischer

Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)

Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Serpocaulon latipes (Langsd. & Fischer) A.R. Sm.

Serpocaulon latipes (Langsd. & Fischer) A.R. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair), by Franz Fischer

Cup with scenes from the New Testament (one of a pair)

Franz Fischer · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Serratula tinctoria subsp. monticola (Boreau) Berher

Serratula tinctoria subsp. monticola (Boreau) Berher

Artist not stated in the record · 187

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Public domainThe Met
Exterior of Fort. Fischer, North Carolina, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882

Exterior of Fort. Fischer, North Carolina

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born Ireland 1840-died New York City 1882 · ca. 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur

Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE

Public domainThe Met
Love amid ruin, by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

Love amid ruin

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1756

Public domainThe Met
Saint Erhard

Saint Erhard

Artist not stated in the record · 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Pair of sconces

Pair of sconces

Artist not stated in the record · first half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rapier, by Pietro de Formicano

Rapier

Pietro de Formicano · ca. 1610–20

Public domainThe Met
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Island of the Dead, by Arnold Böcklin

Island of the Dead

Arnold Böcklin · 1880

Public domainThe Met
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Upholstery panels for a settee

Upholstery panels for a settee

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 5634 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:50 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.