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. 22 shown for “Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:36 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.
Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (1739–1792), by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Portrait of Countess Elizaveta Romanovna Vorontsova (1739–1792)

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · 1762

Public domainThe Met
Creamer and lid, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Creamer and lid

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · 1767–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man with a Lute, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Man with a Lute

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kremlin Service, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Kremlin Service

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anthony Van Dyck, Self Portrait, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Anthony Van Dyck, Self Portrait

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Plate

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dr. Lazarus Markijzus, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Dr. Lazarus Markijzus

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Jug and lid, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Jug and lid

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girl Playing a Recorder, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Girl Playing a Recorder

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rumex confertus Willd.

Rumex confertus Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Mirror, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Woman with a Mirror

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Charger, from the "St. Andrew" Service ("St. Andreas" Service), by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Charger, from the "St. Andrew" Service ("St. Andreas" Service)

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 1744–1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Urtica urens L.

Urtica urens L.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Woman with a Book, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Old Woman with a Book

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Urtica dioica L.

Urtica dioica L.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Woman, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Old Woman

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rumex thyrsiflorus Fingerh.

Rumex thyrsiflorus Fingerh.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1976

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hannah and the Infant Samuel, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Hannah and the Infant Samuel

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Soup Plate, by Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia

Soup Plate

Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Russia · 1756–early 1760s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Woman, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Seated Woman

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Young Woman with a Pink, by Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

Young Woman with a Pink

Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 186 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. 65211 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 15:36 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.