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 Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 05:43 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 Visitation, by Master Heinrich of Constance

The Visitation

Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Chair Frames and Legs, by Johann Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760

Designs for Chair Frames and Legs

Johann Rumpp, German, active ca. 1760 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family, by German Painter

Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family

German Painter · ca. 1573–82

Public domainThe Met
Album of Furniture Designs, by Sarazin, French, 1846 – 1880

Album of Furniture Designs

Sarazin, French, 1846 – 1880 · 1849–66

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

Anton Raphael Mengs · ca. 1777

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lion (one of a pair), by Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

Lion (one of a pair)

Johann Gottlieb Kirchner · ca. 1732

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tobacco box, by Johann Heinrich Giese

Tobacco box

Johann Heinrich Giese · ca. 1760–65

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara, by Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden

Reliquary Bust of Saint Barbara

Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Rocaille Rinceaux Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Rocaille Rinceaux Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock with alarm, by Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

Mantel clock with alarm

Franz Xavier Gegenreiner · case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Motifs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Designs for Rocaille Motifs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

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
Designs for Rocaille Motifs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Designs for Rocaille Motifs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavichord, by Christian Kintzing

Clavichord

Christian Kintzing · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Motifs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Designs for Rocaille Motifs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

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

Harlequin

Höchst Manufactory · ca. 1750–53

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Motifs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Designs for Rocaille Motifs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nécessaire with watch

Nécessaire with watch

Artist not stated in the record · probably ca. 1745–50

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Rocaille Scrolls, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Designs for Rocaille Scrolls

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Columbine and Pantalone, by Meissen Manufactory

Columbine and Pantalone

Meissen Manufactory · ca. 1736

Public domainThe Met
Ornament Designs, by Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780

Ornament Designs

Georg Leopold Hertel, German, active ca. 1780 · mid- 18th century

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. 339 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. 201355 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 05:43 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.