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 “Glass fragment with painted scene” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 21:22 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.
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), by Adam Weisweiler

Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Adam Weisweiler · ca. 1787

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass fragment with painted scene

Glass fragment with painted scene

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis

Artist not stated in the record · 500–550, with modern restoration

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Desk (Secretary)

Desk (Secretary)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–35

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox fragment

Bandbox fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mirror, by Johann Valentin Gevers

Mirror

Johann Valentin Gevers · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1760–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass gladiator cup

Glass gladiator cup

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment with partial chef

Fragment with partial chef

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1200–1215

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jubal and Miriam, by William Jay Bolton

Jubal and Miriam

William Jay Bolton · 1843–48

Public domainThe Met
Scènes romaines, by Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835

Scènes romaines

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian, 1781–1835 · ca. 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond), by Vincennes Manufactory

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)

Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Fragment

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration

Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair), by Sèvres Manufactory

Medici vase with a scene of the park at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory · 1811

Public domainThe Met
Fragment, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Fragment

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · ca. 1825

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. 3215 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. 380188 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-03 21:22 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.