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 “Hat box with stylized chi dragons” — 53 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:39 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 box with stylized chi dragons

Hat box with stylized chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Processes of Wallpaper Production

Processes of Wallpaper Production

Artist not stated in the record · 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Stationery box decorated with peony scrolls

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ornamental Vase Design, by Louis Doré, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

Louis Doré, French, active 18th century · 1750-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with chi dragons amid clouds

Box with chi dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859

Design for Entrance Hall, East Wall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with patterns of phoenixes and chi dragons

Box with patterns of phoenixes and chi dragons

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Box

Box

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market

Inlaid Box for the Portuguese Market

Artist not stated in the record · ca.1600

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932

Vase

Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932 · 1879–1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Rhacomitrium anomodontoides

Rhacomitrium anomodontoides

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular box in imitation of a pack of books

Rectangular box in imitation of a pack of books

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Hanging

Hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box in the shape of an archaic jade she

Box in the shape of an archaic jade she

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Livery trimming

Livery trimming

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Anax parthenope julius

Anax parthenope julius

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jul 1939

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fan Mount: Dancers, by Edgar Degas

Fan Mount: Dancers

Edgar Degas · 1879

Public domainThe Met
Design, a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Design, a Sepulchral Monument for Three Brothers

Artist not stated in the record · 1590–1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bursa Reliquary

Bursa Reliquary

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Goblet Commemorating the Seven United Provinces and Prince William IV, Governor of the Netherlands

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Returning Home, by Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

Returning Home

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) · ca. 1695

Public domainThe Met
Band

Band

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

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. 13 matched · 13 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. 414518 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 05:39 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.