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. 23 shown for “Hat Stand (One of a Pair)” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 23:22 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.
Hat Stand (One of a Pair)

Hat Stand (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier holding a pair of gloves

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing frame, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Standing frame

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing shelf (one of a pair), by William Linnell

Standing shelf (one of a pair)

William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Photographic print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car, by Unidentified

Photographic print of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson and another woman in front of car

Unidentified · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stand, by William Sprats

Stand

William Sprats · 1778–81

Public domainThe Met
Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse, by Unidentified

Gold sequined dress with matching hat and purse

Unidentified · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zemí cohoba stand, by Taíno artist(s)

Zemí cohoba stand

Taíno artist(s) · ca. 1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of Theodore Cole, Cow Legs, and a Tree, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of Theodore Cole, Cow Legs, and a Tree, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and September 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Morgan Casket

Morgan Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Floral Arch on Stand (One of a Pair)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Cabinet card studio portrait of a woman standing with a pedestal table

Artist not stated in the record · 1900-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuffer Stand, by Cornelius Kierstede

Snuffer Stand

Cornelius Kierstede · ca. 1705

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Photographic postcard of a caravan of dromedary camels pulling a wagon of men

Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side table (one of a pair), by Matthias Lock

Side table (one of a pair)

Matthias Lock · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)

Figure for a Pincushion (One of a Pair)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Photographic postcard of three unidentified men

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

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. 7494 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3971620 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-07 23:22 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.