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. 14 shown for “Gondola cup (Coupe gondole) with Bacchus and Ceres” — 42 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 16:20 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.
Gondola cup (Coupe gondole) with Bacchus and Ceres

Gondola cup (Coupe gondole) with Bacchus and Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
La Gondole (The Gondola), by Abraham Genoels, Flemish, 1640 - 1723

La Gondole (The Gondola)

Abraham Genoels, Flemish, 1640 - 1723 · ca. 1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gondola cup (Coupe gondole) with Venus as Summer and Adonis as Autumn

Gondola cup (Coupe gondole) with Venus as Summer and Adonis as Autumn

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Vessels and Roundels with Attributes of Bacchus, Flora, Apollo, and Ceres

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1778–1782

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Bacchus and Ceres, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Triumph of Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Bacchus, Venus, and Ceres

Artist not stated in the record · 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Four Seasons, by B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836

The Four Seasons

B. M. Lebert, 1759–1836 · 1818–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchus and Ceres, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Soffits and Vases, Plate 5 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Soffits and Vases, Plate 5 from "Cahier de Trophées, Soffites et Vases," Parte IX, Cahier I

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hebe

Hebe

Artist not stated in the record · 1799

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chalice

Design for a Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 17th–late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation, by Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711

Panel Design of Grotesque Ornamentation

Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711 · 1711

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · About 1813

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1524690 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-01 16:20 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.