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 “Ink Rest” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 10:58 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.
Ink Rest

Ink Rest

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Patent Model for an Ink-Roller Rest, by Cook, James

Patent Model for an Ink-Roller Rest

Cook, James · ca 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, by Gerard David

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Gerard David · ca. 1512–15

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Trees in a Landscape, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Sketch of a Trees in a Landscape

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1760–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kimono-Shaped Coverlet (Yogi) with Chinese Lions and Peonies

Kimono-Shaped Coverlet (Yogi) with Chinese Lions and Peonies

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Side table from the Rock Rest Tourist Home

Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals, by Studio of Kano Takanobu

The Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

Studio of Kano Takanobu · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Cleobolus, by Claude Vignon, French, 1593–1670

Cleobolus

Claude Vignon, French, 1593–1670 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Dream of Aeneas, by Salvator Rosa

The Dream of Aeneas

Salvator Rosa · 1660–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for Architectural Motif, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for Architectural Motif

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · ca. 1710

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Old Plum, by Kano Sansetsu

Old Plum

Kano Sansetsu · 1646

Public domainThe Met
George du Maurier, by Charles Dana Gibson, American, 1867–1944

George du Maurier

Charles Dana Gibson, American, 1867–1944 · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotuses, by Kaihō Yūsetsu

Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotuses

Kaihō Yūsetsu · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child, by Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857

Sketches, Possibly the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Figures Worshipping the Virgin and Child

Filipo Agricola, Italian, 1776 - 1857 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”, by Musō Soseki

”Abiding nowhere, the awakened mind arises”

Musō Soseki · early to mid-14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rest Stop, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Rest Stop

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1797-1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Penitence of Saint Jerome, by Joachim Patinir

The Penitence of Saint Jerome

Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Military Vignettes, by Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866

Military Vignettes

Victor Vincent Adam, French, 1801 – 1866 · 1830–1840

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

Six Jewel Rivers

Sakai Ōho · ca. 1839

Public domainThe Met
Project for Cross, by Paolo Roberto, Neapolitan?, active ca. 1837

Project for Cross

Paolo Roberto, Neapolitan?, active ca. 1837 · 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Valentine, by Anonymous

Valentine

Anonymous · 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Design for a crest with a coat of arms, by Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853

Design for a crest with a coat of arms

Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti, Italian, active in France, 1791 - 1853 · 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooded Mountains at Dusk, by Kuncan

Wooded Mountains at Dusk

Kuncan · dated 1666

Public domainThe Met
A Seated Muse, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

A Seated Muse

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1800-1825

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. 643 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. 63623 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 2026-08-28 10:58 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.