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. 12 shown for “Inscribed element, Akhenaten” — 40 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 20:30 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Album of Trophies Representing the Four Elements, by Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784

Album of Trophies Representing the Four Elements

Maurice Jacques, French, ca. 1712–1784 · 1758–64

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Multiplex, by Hammond

Multiplex

Hammond · 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins Space Bass guitar owned by Bootsy Collins

Artist not stated in the record · July 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
"Blackpool"

"Blackpool"

Artist not stated in the record · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Green's Lawn Mowers"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Oval Ceiling with Three Graces, Design for Sala di Enea, Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Oval Ceiling with Three Graces, Design for Sala di Enea, Palazzo Marescalchi, Bologna

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Atlas Ready Mixed Paint"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for the "National Union of the United Brewery Workmen"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 9483 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 20:30 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.