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 “Hook with Horned Feline” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:39 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.
Hook with Horned Feline

Hook with Horned Feline

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Hieracium albiflorum Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with caiman, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Bottle with caiman

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1000–800 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) P. S. Manos et al. var. densiflorus

Notholithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) P. S. Manos et al. var. densiflorus

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons

Cup in the shape of an archaic vessel with feline dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Carex complanata Torr. & Hook.

Carex complanata Torr. & Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cup with two feline dragons

Cup with two feline dragons

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev.

Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Inlaid Powder Horn

Inlaid Powder Horn

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Inscriptions from Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Inscriptions from Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · December 17, 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garment hook with feline motif

Garment hook with feline motif

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Fish-Pound, Old Landmarks, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 647), by Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924

Fish-Pound, Old Landmarks, Illustrations for Scribner's Monthly (XVIII, No. 5, September 1879, p. 647)

Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924 · September 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Hippopotamus

Head of a Hippopotamus

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Square from hanging

Square from hanging

Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–4th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon laricifolius Hook. & Arn.

Penstemon laricifolius Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1949

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase with Mythical Creature Chasing Pearl

Vase with Mythical Creature Chasing Pearl

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Penstemon laricifolius Hook. & Arn.

Penstemon laricifolius Hook. & Arn.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with a thistle medallion, by John Dwight

Bottle with a thistle medallion

John Dwight · ca. 1675–76

Public domainThe Met
Trientalis europaea subsp. arctica (Fisch. ex Hook.) Hultén

Trientalis europaea subsp. arctica (Fisch. ex Hook.) Hultén

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun, by Louis Perrin

Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun

Louis Perrin · dated 1854

Public domainThe Met
Cardamine pratensis subsp. angustifolia (Hook.) O.E. Schulz

Cardamine pratensis subsp. angustifolia (Hook.) O.E. Schulz

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Wine pouring vessel (Gong)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Packera cana (Hook.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1935

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. 43 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. 352613 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-10 17:39 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.