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. 21 shown for “Jacob Duck” — 51 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:25 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.
A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller, by Jacob Duck

A Couple in an Interior with a Fortune-Teller

Jacob Duck · ca. 1632–33

Public domainThe Met
Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass, by Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century

Seated Cavalier with Wine Glass

Jacob Duck, Netherlandish, 17th century · 1650–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair), by Georges Jacob

Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)

Georges Jacob · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Dipteryx trifoliolata (Ducke) Ducke

Dipteryx trifoliolata (Ducke) Ducke

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Duck and Reeds, by Berthe Morisot

Duck and Reeds

Berthe Morisot · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Exellodendron barbatum (Ducke) Prance

Exellodendron barbatum (Ducke) Prance

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze tripod and dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl)

Bronze tripod and dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 525–475 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Alseis longifolia Ducke

Alseis longifolia Ducke

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1995

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schnella cupreonitens (Ducke) Wunderlin

Schnella cupreonitens (Ducke) Wunderlin

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Feb 1991

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Swan and Duck, with Portraits of Julie, by Berthe Morisot

Swan and Duck, with Portraits of Julie

Berthe Morisot · 1889

Public domainThe Met
Apeiba macropetala Ducke

Apeiba macropetala Ducke

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curlews and Ducks, by Nicolas Robert

Curlews and Ducks

Nicolas Robert · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Terminalia viridiflora (Ducke) Gere & Boatwr.

Terminalia viridiflora (Ducke) Gere & Boatwr.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Maid Asleep, by Johannes Vermeer

A Maid Asleep

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57

Public domainThe Met
Schnella siqueirae (Ducke) Wunderlin

Schnella siqueirae (Ducke) Wunderlin

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jan 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Kitchen Scene, by Peter Wtewael

Kitchen Scene

Peter Wtewael · 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Terminalia viridiflora (Ducke) Gere & Boatwr.

Terminalia viridiflora (Ducke) Gere & Boatwr.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Oct 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drag #1115, by Brewster & Co.

Drag #1115

Brewster & Co. · 1850–70

Public domainThe Met
Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jan 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Nov 2004

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Senefeldera macrophylla Ducke

Senefeldera macrophylla Ducke

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Feb 1991

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 33284 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-27 10:25 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.