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 “Holiçs, founded 1743” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:24 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.
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
Pair of pitchers, by Holiçs, founded 1743

Pair of pitchers

Holiçs, founded 1743 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode à vantaux, by David Roentgen

Commode à vantaux

David Roentgen · ca. 1775–79 with later alterations

Public domainThe Met
1c Franklin type II on advertising cover

1c Franklin type II on advertising cover

Artist not stated in the record · July 11, 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval dish, by Jacques-Claude Pourcelle

Oval dish

Jacques-Claude Pourcelle · 1768–75

Public domainThe Met
10-cent Jefferson, by American Bank Note Company

10-cent Jefferson

American Bank Note Company · Issue date: 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Hunting Scene, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

A Hunting Scene

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
10-cent Jefferson, by American Bank Note Company

10-cent Jefferson

American Bank Note Company · Issue date: 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Return from the Hunt, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Return from the Hunt

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500

Public domainThe Met
10-cent Jefferson, by American Bank Note Company

10-cent Jefferson

American Bank Note Company · Issue date: 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nature (La Nature), by Louis Simon Boizot

Nature (La Nature)

Louis Simon Boizot · ca. 1794–95

Public domainThe Met
10-cent Jefferson, by American Bank Note Company

10-cent Jefferson

American Bank Note Company · Issue date: 1882

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, by Nicolas Poussin

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun

Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
唐草図鐔 Sword Guard (Tsuba), by 鷲田光中作 Washida Mitsunaka

唐草図鐔 Sword Guard (Tsuba)

鷲田光中作 Washida Mitsunaka · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, by Benedetto Luti

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Benedetto Luti · 1715–20

Public domainThe Met
10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

10c Thomas Jefferson plate proof single

Artist not stated in the record · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
5c brown Jefferson Type I single, by Toppan, Carpenter and Company

5c brown Jefferson Type I single

Toppan, Carpenter and Company · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John the Evangelist, by Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

St. John the Evangelist

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1744

Public domainThe Met
5c brown Jefferson F. Grill single, by National Bank Note Company

5c brown Jefferson F. Grill single

National Bank Note Company · 1867

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints, by Franz Anton Maulbertsch

The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints

Franz Anton Maulbertsch · ca. 1772–73

Public domainThe Met
5c red brown Jefferson single, by Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear and Company

5c red brown Jefferson single

Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear and Company · 1856

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. 87 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. 26553 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 23:24 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.