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 “Garment hook with feline motif” — 63 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:48 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.
Garment hook with feline motif

Garment hook with feline motif

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Evening coat from the collection of Lucy Cordice, by Unidentified

Evening coat from the collection of Lucy Cordice

Unidentified · 1870-1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with caiman, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with caiman

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cream dress with floral lace and embroidery, by Unidentified

Cream dress with floral lace and embroidery

Unidentified · ca.1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hook with Horned Feline

Hook with Horned Feline

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim, by Unidentified

Brown bodice and skirt with green silk trim

Unidentified · ca.1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Felines

Tunic with Felines

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1550

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Plate Depicting a Female Figure Riding a Fantastic Winged Beast

Artist not stated in the record · probably 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Waistcoat

Waistcoat

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–95

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive checkerboard tunic, by Inca artist(s)

Votive checkerboard tunic

Inca artist(s) · 1460–1626

Public domainThe Met
Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) P. S. Manos et al. var. densiflorus

Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) P. S. Manos et al. var. densiflorus

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin and Child in an Apse, by Robert Campin

Virgin and Child in an Apse

Robert Campin

Public domainThe Met
Cuff

Cuff

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Netherlandish

The Lamentation

Netherlandish · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Bouquet holder, flower and shell motif, hook attachment

Bouquet holder, flower and shell motif, hook attachment

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1830-1920

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. 23 matched · 23 examined · 2 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. 362059 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-10 17:48 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.