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. 20 shown for “Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:41 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.
Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose

Half of a Food Case Containing a Preserved Goose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Wedding Cake of Sarah A. Meserole and Henry W. M. Meade, by Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869

Wedding Cake of Sarah A. Meserole and Henry W. M. Meade

Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Gold wireless microphone and black case used on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Artist not stated in the record · 2009

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Furniture Design: Elevation of a Pedestal or Case, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Furniture Design: Elevation of a Pedestal or Case

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1690

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Chopsticks Set

Chopsticks Set

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Pigeon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Case

Design for a Door Case

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Duck

Food Case Probably Containing a Preserved Duck

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for Elevation of a Window Case, by Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805

Design for Elevation of a Window Case

Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Preserved Shoulder of Beef and Half of a Food Box

Preserved Shoulder of Beef and Half of a Food Box

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Police Gazette Championship Belt and presentation case awarded to Ezzard Charles

Artist not stated in the record · 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case for a Goose

Case for a Goose

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1479 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till, by Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911

Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till

Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clock with pedestal, by André Charles Boulle

Clock with pedestal

André Charles Boulle · ca. 1690

Public domainThe Met
Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray

Rhynchospora nitens (Vahl) A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Aug 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Bottle in the shape of a feline, by Wari artist(s)

Bottle in the shape of a feline

Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

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. 511 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. 3870175 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:41 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.