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. 23 shown for “Jawbone” — 38 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-10 17:44 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.
Jawbone

Jawbone

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1497

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass

Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass

Artist not stated in the record · 1140–50

Public domainThe Met
Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A.Smit

Krascheninnikovia lanata (Pursh) A. Meeuse & A.Smit

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson and Delilah, by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Samson and Delilah

Lucas Cranach the Elder · ca. 1528–30

Public domainThe Met
Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus A. Gray

Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nlô byeri (reliquary guardian head), by Betsi-Fang artist

Nlô byeri (reliquary guardian head)

Betsi-Fang artist · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lycium andersonii A. Gray

Lycium andersonii A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Busk

Busk

Artist not stated in the record · 1675–1725

Public domainThe Met
Ambrosia dumosa (A. Gray) W.W.Payne

Ambrosia dumosa (A. Gray) W.W.Payne

Artist not stated in the record · 5 May 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson (or Hercules?), by Jacques Bellange

Samson (or Hercules?)

Jacques Bellange · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

Artist not stated in the record · 1528

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fameux Jury de Peinture; Salon de 1841, by Clément Pruche

Fameux Jury de Peinture; Salon de 1841

Clément Pruche · March 20, 1841

Public domainThe Met
Eremalche exilis (A. Gray) Greene

Eremalche exilis (A. Gray) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A charlatan extracting a tooth from a patient's mouth, figure in the foreground vomiting; folio 68 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B", by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

A charlatan extracting a tooth from a patient's mouth, figure in the foreground vomiting; folio 68 (verso) from the Madrid Album "B"

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1796–98

Public domainThe Met
Mentzelia albicaulis (Douglas ex Hook.) Douglas ex Torr. & A. Gray

Mentzelia albicaulis (Douglas ex Hook.) Douglas ex Torr. & A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson and the Philistines, by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Samson and the Philistines

Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1550

Public domainThe Met
Eriogonum nudum var. pubiflorum Benth. in DC.

Eriogonum nudum var. pubiflorum Benth. in DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Spiritus Fortitudines, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Spiritus Fortitudines

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · ca. 1568

Public domainThe Met
Chylismia claviformis (Torr. & Frém.) A. Heller subsp. claviformis

Chylismia claviformis (Torr. & Frém.) A. Heller subsp. claviformis

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Mar 2017

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1877–80

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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24 matched · 24 examined · 11 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 2026-09-10 17:44 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.