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 “Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:39 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.
Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines

Incense Box with Designs of Pines Along the Shore and Young Pines

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Pemadumcook Pines, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pemadumcook Pines, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Young Pines, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Young Pines

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipe Organ, by Thomas Appleton

Pipe Organ

Thomas Appleton · 1830

Public domainThe Met
Echo Lake, Morning, by Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915

Echo Lake, Morning

Francis Hopkinson Smith, American, 1838–1915 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Design of Pines Along the Shore

Box with Design of Pines Along the Shore

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pier Table, by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier · 1815–19

Public domainThe Met
Storm Coming, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Storm Coming

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1884

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Quinten Massys

The Adoration of the Magi

Quinten Massys · 1526

Public domainThe Met
Dudleya sp.

Dudleya sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling

Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 1450–1500

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall on board

Sidewall on board

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense Box (Kōbako) in the Shape of Three Overlapping Jars, by Barthélémy Paviet

Incense Box (Kōbako) in the Shape of Three Overlapping Jars

Barthélémy Paviet · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rocky Peak above Pines and a Rowboat, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Rocky Peak above Pines and a Rowboat

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Saint John the Baptist, by Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio)

The Young Saint John the Baptist

Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1480–82

Public domainThe Met
Chocorua Mountain from Cara's Pond, New Hampshire, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Chocorua Mountain from Cara's Pond, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · September 28, 1854

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Women on a Bridge Tossing Fans into a River

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir program for the 17th Annual Pine Street Y Circus

Souvenir program for the 17th Annual Pine Street Y Circus

Artist not stated in the record · 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crucifix

Crucifix

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–1200

Public domainThe Met
Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Scattered Pines along Tone River (Tone-gawa, Barabara-matsu) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1856

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Six Jewel Rivers, by Sakai Ōho

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Pemadumcook Pine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pemadumcook Pine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

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. 36 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3305611 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-27 21:39 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.