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. 12 shown for “Johann Heinrich Boltschauser” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Two Goats and a Kid, by Johann Heinrich Roos, German, born Otterberg, Germany 1631-died Frankfurt, Germany 1685

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos, German, born Otterberg, Germany 1631-died Frankfurt, Germany 1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel", by Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763

Allegorical Figural Group Depicting the "Peace of Basel"

Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hope

Hope

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Chinoiserie Flowers, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1765–73

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Pendant Trophy, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Design for a Pendant Trophy

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1772–77

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14799 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 17:49 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.