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 Heinrich Meyer” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:06 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.
Shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape, by Johann Heinrich Meyer

Shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape

Johann Heinrich Meyer · ca. 1720–30

Public domainThe Met
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
Family Gathered Before a Monument in a Landscape with a Waterfall, by Johann Heinrich Meyer

Family Gathered Before a Monument in a Landscape with a Waterfall

Johann Heinrich Meyer · 1805

Public domainThe Met
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
Oboe, by Johann Heinrich Grenser

Oboe

Johann Heinrich Grenser · ca. 1806–13

Public domainThe Met
Hope

Hope

Artist not stated in the record · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Meyer George von Bremen], by Heinrich Graf

[Meyer George von Bremen]

Heinrich Graf · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
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
[Meyer George von Bremen], by Heinrich Graf

[Meyer George von Bremen]

Heinrich Graf · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
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
Tobacco box, by Johann Heinrich Giese

Tobacco box

Johann Heinrich Giese · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
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
The Visitation, by Master Heinrich of Constance

The Visitation

Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

Public domainThe Met
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
Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553), by Kunz Lochner

Horse Armor Made for Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxony-Coburg (1521–1553)

Kunz Lochner · dated 1548

Public domainThe Met
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
Allegory of love, hope and plenty, by Johann Heinrich Balthasar Sang

Allegory of love, hope and plenty

Johann Heinrich Balthasar Sang · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Title Page

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Field and Tournament Armor of Johann Wilhelm (1530–1573), Duke of Saxe-Weimar, by Anton Peffenhauser

Field and Tournament Armor of Johann Wilhelm (1530–1573), Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Anton Peffenhauser · ca. 1565

Public domainThe Met
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
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
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
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
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. 287 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 23499 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-08-26 16:06 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.