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 “Johann Adam Seupel” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 18:23 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 Comet Above Strasbourg at Night, by Johann Adam Seupel

A Comet Above Strasbourg at Night

Johann Adam Seupel · n.d.

Public domainThe Met
Membership Certificate, "Robert Sterling", by Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon

Membership Certificate, "Robert Sterling"

Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon · ca 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Alto Recorder in F, by Johann Benedikt Gahn

Alto Recorder in F

Johann Benedikt Gahn · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Going Down to Gethsemane, by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Furth, Germany 1823-died Vienna, VA 1909

Going Down to Gethsemane

Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Furth, Germany 1823-died Vienna, VA 1909 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Natural Trumpet, by Johann Wilhelm Haas

Natural Trumpet

Johann Wilhelm Haas · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Pedicularis amoena Adams ex Stev.

Pedicularis amoena Adams ex Stev.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jun 1879

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service, by Elias Adam

"Four Seasons" enamel liqueur service

Elias Adam · ca. 1710

Public domainThe Met
Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table centerpiece, by Johann Jakob Adam

Table centerpiece

Johann Jakob Adam · 1765–67

Public domainThe Met
Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding spoon, by Johann Adam Boller

Folding spoon

Johann Adam Boller · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Parade of Louis XIV on the Pont Neuf, Paris

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1670-1680

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Gladiolus sp.

Gladiolus sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Spring 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Harlequin, by Höchst Manufactory

Harlequin

Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Public domainThe Met
Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Daniel Mignot, active 1593 - d. 1616 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony, by Paul Preuning

Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony

Paul Preuning · ca. 1547–50

Public domainThe Met
Goblet, by Johann Jakob Adam, ca. 1720 – 1791

Goblet

Johann Jakob Adam, ca. 1720 – 1791 · ca. 1751–53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Johann Christian Brand, by Adam von Bartsch

Portrait of Johann Christian Brand

Adam von Bartsch · 1793

Public domainThe Met
Polypodium affine G. Forst.

Polypodium affine G. Forst.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), by Johann Michael Bauer

Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set)

Johann Michael Bauer · ca. 1763–64

Public domainThe Met
Walter Johannes Damrosch, by Oscar White, born 1921

Walter Johannes Damrosch

Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Pteris humilis G. Forst.

Pteris humilis G. Forst.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 156 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 19292 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-09-02 18:23 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.