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. 19 shown for “J. Jones” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:37 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 grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones

The grammar of ornament

Owen Jones · 1856

Public domainThe Met
J. Jones, by William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845

J. Jones

William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Love Song, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Love Song

Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77

Public domainThe Met
Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones, by Unidentified

Necklace worn by Jessie Greer, gifted to her by George J. Jones

Unidentified · ca. 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society, by T. Dixon

Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

T. Dixon · 1852

Public domainThe Met
Harriet Beecher Stowe, by J. Jones

Harriet Beecher Stowe

J. Jones · n.d.a.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The grammar of ornament, by Owen Jones

The grammar of ornament

Owen Jones · 1868

Public domainThe Met
Argia vivida

Argia vivida

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Decoration, Palace of Amenhotep III, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Ceiling Decoration, Palace of Amenhotep III

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Argia vivida

Argia vivida

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceiling Patterns from the Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Ceiling Patterns from the Palace of Amenhotep III, Malqata

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Argia vivida

Argia vivida

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Syrian Kneeling to the Left, Palace of Amenhotep III at Malqata, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Syrian Kneeling to the Left, Palace of Amenhotep III at Malqata

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Argia vivida

Argia vivida

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 2012 to 18 Jul 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clump of Papyrus, Palace of Amenhotep III, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Clump of Papyrus, Palace of Amenhotep III

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bull in a Papyrus Swamp, Palace of Amenhotep III, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Bull in a Papyrus Swamp, Palace of Amenhotep III

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Flying Ducks, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Flying Ducks

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Basket of Fruit, Palace of Amenhotep III, by William J. Palmer-Jones

Basket of Fruit, Palace of Amenhotep III

William J. Palmer-Jones · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections, by Owen Jones

Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections

Owen Jones · 1867

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. 379 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. 1214178 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 10:37 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.