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. 17 shown for “Georg Lorenz Warnberger” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:49 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.
Lidded beaker, by Georg Lorenz Warnberger

Lidded beaker

Georg Lorenz Warnberger · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Tragus berteronianus Schult.

Tragus berteronianus Schult.

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coffret (Minnekästchen)

Coffret (Minnekästchen)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
Cortaderia sp.

Cortaderia sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, by Théodore Géricault

Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Théodore Géricault · 1818

Public domainThe Met
Buddleja nappii Lorenz

Buddleja nappii Lorenz

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Mar 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature collector's cabinet, by Bernard Salomon

Miniature collector's cabinet

Bernard Salomon · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Franz Christian Lorenz Karsten (1751-1829), by Unknown

Portrait of Franz Christian Lorenz Karsten (1751-1829)

Unknown · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine, by Lorenz, William A.

Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine

Lorenz, William A. · ca 1881

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Presentation Coin of Maximilian I, by Ulrich Ursentaler

Presentation Coin of Maximilian I

Ulrich Ursentaler · minted, 1517; dies cut and dated, 1509

Public domainThe Met
The Natchez, by Eugène Delacroix

The Natchez

Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy, by Meissen Manufactory

Tea caddy

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1710–13

Public domainThe Met
Tea caddy, by Meissen Manufactory

Tea caddy

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1713–20

Public domainThe Met
Furniture plaque: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Furniture plaque: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 18th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
General Letellier on His Deathbed, by Théodore Géricault

General Letellier on His Deathbed

Théodore Géricault · ca. 1818–20

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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 189423 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:49 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.