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 “Inscribed 50 Deben Weight” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 09:25 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.
Inscribed 50 Deben Weight

Inscribed 50 Deben Weight

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1080–525 BCE

Public domainThe Met
L'Agreable lecon ou L'Art d'Amier

L'Agreable lecon ou L'Art d'Amier

Artist not stated in the record · 1785–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with flutes from shoulder to rosette at base and with inscribed weight

Bowl with flutes from shoulder to rosette at base and with inscribed weight

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1735

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with acorn bosses at shoulder, lotus pattern beneath, and rosette on bottom, and with inscribed weight

Bowl with acorn bosses at shoulder, lotus pattern beneath, and rosette on bottom, and with inscribed weight

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Weight

Weight

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold phiale (libation bowl)

Gold phiale (libation bowl)

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

Public domainThe Met
Weight

Weight

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Laundress, by Honoré Daumier

The Laundress

Honoré Daumier · 186[3?]

Public domainThe Met
Plan for new administration building for hospital Trinita de Pellegrini, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Plan for new administration building for hospital Trinita de Pellegrini

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1800–1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Limestone Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–30

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold copy of a bracelet

Gold copy of a bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Door Case, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Door Case

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gold copy of a bracelet

Gold copy of a bracelet

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Balance, by Beach, T.

Balance

Beach, T. · late eighteenth century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758), by Pierre Hubert Subleyras

Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)

Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of the wall of the salon of Princess Czartorinska., by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Elevation of the wall of the salon of Princess Czartorinska.

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1730–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

Artist not stated in the record · 500–650

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Studies after Paintings in Ferrara, Rome, Bologna, Mantua after Artists Tibaldi, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Polidoro; Verso: Bird Skeleton and Horse's Head

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Letter, by Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Love Letter

Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s

Public domainThe Met
Coffeepot, by Meissen Manufactory

Coffeepot

Meissen Manufactory · manufactured ca. 1715–20; decorated ca. 1728–30

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. 26 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 271495 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 2026-08-28 09:25 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.