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 “I.L.” — 61 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 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.
Quilt, Album pattern, by Brown and Turner families

Quilt, Album pattern

Brown and Turner families · begun 1846

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Mar 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval dish, by I.L.

Oval dish

I.L. · ca. 1740–50

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Sep 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Round beads from the mummy of Ukhhotep

Round beads from the mummy of Ukhhotep

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1802 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish, by I. L.

Dish

I. L. · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/1/46

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Marble portrait head of the Emperor Constantine I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 325–370 CE

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 28 May 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes, by Zhang Feng

Landscapes

Zhang Feng · dated 1644

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Dec 1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Landscapes and trees, by Gong Xian

Landscapes and trees

Gong Xian · ca. 1679

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Celebratory scene

Celebratory scene

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of twelve zodiac animals

Set of twelve zodiac animals

Artist not stated in the record · 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 11/10/50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composed Armor

Composed Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480 and later

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composed Armor for a Youth, by Raymond Bartel

Composed Armor for a Youth

Raymond Bartel · ca. 1560 and later

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Apr 1974

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Armor

Ceremonial Armor

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Paspalum mandiocanum var. subaequiglume I.L. Barreto

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Dec 1972

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. 5820 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 37 matched · 37 examined · 24 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 2026-08-28 05:00 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.