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 Jacob Könnicke” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:13 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.
Upright (Giraffe) Piano, by Johann Jacob Könnicke

Upright (Giraffe) Piano

Johann Jacob Könnicke · 1810

Public domainThe Met
JOHANN BALTHAKAR MICHEL, by Haid, John Jacob

JOHANN BALTHAKAR MICHEL

Haid, John Jacob · between 1710-1767

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet, by Johan Arndts

Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet

Johan Arndts · 1696

Public domainThe Met
Jacob at the Well

Jacob at the Well

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jagdhorn in G, by Jacob Schmidt

Jagdhorn in G

Jacob Schmidt · ca. 1710–20

Public domainThe Met
Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra, by Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736 · before 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Shepherds, by Jacob Jordaens

The Holy Family with Shepherds

Jacob Jordaens · 1616

Public domainThe Met
Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate), by Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815

Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate)

Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815 · ca. 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father, by Maarten van Heemskerck

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father

Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Public domainThe Met
The Blinding of Samson

The Blinding of Samson

Artist not stated in the record · 1786

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
Jewelry Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Legatio batavica ad magnum Tartariæ chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinæ imperatorem : historiarum narratione, quæ legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, & aula imperatoriâ ab anno 1665 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt, ut & ardua Sinensium in bello tartarico fortunâ, provinciarum accurata geographia, urbium delineatione, nec non artis & naturæ miraculis ex animalium, vegetabilium, mineralium genere per centum & quinquaginta æneas figuras passim illustrata & conscripta vernacule, by Johannes Nieuhof

Legatio batavica ad magnum Tartariæ chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinæ imperatorem : historiarum narratione, quæ legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, & aula imperatoriâ ab anno 1665 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt, ut & ardua Sinensium in bello tartarico fortunâ, provinciarum accurata geographia, urbium delineatione, nec non artis & naturæ miraculis ex animalium, vegetabilium, mineralium genere per centum & quinquaginta æneas figuras passim illustrata & conscripta vernacule

Johannes Nieuhof · 1668

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Flintlock Pistols, by Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter

Pair of Flintlock Pistols

Johann Andreas Kuchenreuter · ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Jewelry and Ornament Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Jewelry and Ornament Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Beaker, by Esaias Busch III

Beaker

Esaias Busch III · 1720

Public domainThe Met
Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Sword Hilt (Handles) and Guard Designs

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

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
La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

La Fraîcheur de la Soirée

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jacob and the Angel, by Johann Jacob Eybelwieser

Jacob and the Angel

Johann Jacob Eybelwieser · late 17th–mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Title Page

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Jacob Berzélius (1779–1848), Swedish scientific chemist, by Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Johann Jacob Berzélius (1779–1848), Swedish scientific chemist

Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Jewelry, Clasps, Fans, Mirror, and Bookbinding, by Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699

Designs for Jewelry, Clasps, Fans, Mirror, and Bookbinding

Friedrich Jacob Morison, German, active 1693 – 1699 · ca. 1700

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. 117 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. 22905 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 11:13 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.