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 “Günther Wagner” — 53 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:23 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.
Günther Wagner : Preis-Liste, no. 19A, by Günther Wagner

Günther Wagner : Preis-Liste, no. 19A

Günther Wagner · 1901

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preisliste Nr. 20B, by Günther Wagner

Preisliste Nr. 20B

Günther Wagner · 1904

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar with flying figure (the Oculate Being), by Paracas artist(s)

Jar with flying figure (the Oculate Being)

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar, by Paracas artist(s)

Storage jar

Paracas artist(s) · 350–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Storage jar, by Paracas artist(s)

Storage jar

Paracas artist(s) · 350–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neckless jar with complex scene, by Paracas artist(s)

Neckless jar with complex scene

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with zoomorphic motifs, by Paracas artist(s)

Bowl with zoomorphic motifs

Paracas artist(s) · 350–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spout-and-bridge bottle with feline face, by Paracas artist(s)

Spout-and-bridge bottle with feline face

Paracas artist(s) · 800–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drum, by Paracas artist(s)

Drum

Paracas artist(s) · 200 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being), by Paracas artist(s)

Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being)

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being), by Paracas artist(s)

Rattle bowl with flying figure (Oculate Being)

Paracas artist(s) · 350 BCE–60 CE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle, by Paracas artist(s)

Feline-shaped spout-and-bridge bottle

Paracas artist(s) · 800–400 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Charles Godfrey Gunther

Charles Godfrey Gunther

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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 · 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. 13450 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 18:23 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.