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 “Hemp Leaf and Well-cover Motifs” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:49 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.
Landscapes after historical painters, by Yun Xiang

Landscapes after historical painters

Yun Xiang · datable to 1638 or 1650

Public domainThe Met
Hemp Leaf and Well-cover Motifs

Hemp Leaf and Well-cover Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Glass ornaments with gold leaf overlay

Glass ornaments with gold leaf overlay

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hemp-leaf pattern and Lattice weave Motif

Hemp-leaf pattern and Lattice weave Motif

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

"Rosette Bearing the Names and Titles of Shah Jahan", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Artist not stated in the record · recto: ca. 1645; verso: ca. 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
in Aesthetic Style with Diagonal Opening, by Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853

in Aesthetic Style with Diagonal Opening

Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, by Govardhan

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan · verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50

Public domainThe Met
Cushion cover

Cushion cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

Cherry Blossom Viewing at Itsukushima and Yoshino

Artist not stated in the record · first half 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Casket

Casket

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus and Cupid, by Lorenzo Lotto

Venus and Cupid

Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836), by Jacques Louis David

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

Jacques Louis David · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Console Table Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Console Table Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Plans et Elevations de deux Retables d'autel Ornés de Pilastres differens. Pilastre Ionique. Pilastre Toscan., by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Plans et Elevations de deux Retables d'autel Ornés de Pilastres differens. Pilastre Ionique. Pilastre Toscan.

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Four-leaf folding screen (Paravent)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Console Table Design, by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Console Table Design

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1785-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adam, by Tullio Lombardo

Adam

Tullio Lombardo · ca. 1490–95

Public domainThe Met
Box with Arabic Inscription

Box with Arabic Inscription

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Quinten Massys

Portrait of a Woman

Quinten Massys · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall - fragment

Sidewall - fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1800

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. 64 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 226 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 05:49 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.