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 “Ivy and Blossoms on a Checkered Board” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 03:26 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.
Game Board

Game Board

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Ivy and Blossoms on a Checkered Board

Ivy and Blossoms on a Checkered Board

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
LE DAMIER, by Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786

LE DAMIER

Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French, 1721–1786 · 1753-1757

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
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Emperor's Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game table, by David Roentgen

Game table

David Roentgen · ca. 1780–83

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsh-Bowl of Rennefer

Marsh-Bowl of Rennefer

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1504–1447 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1825–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of twelve red terracotta balls

Set of twelve red terracotta balls

Artist not stated in the record · late 4th or early 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Collector of Prints, by Edgar Degas

The Collector of Prints

Edgar Degas · 1866

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf", by Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France · 1805–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
Irises on Banded Ground

Irises on Banded Ground

Artist not stated in the record · mid 18th - early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Sidewall

Sidewall

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Damascus Room

Damascus Room

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE

Public domainThe Met
Etui

Etui

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · probably first half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Cooper Union Museum Lace Study Card

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 3015798 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-07 03:26 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.