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 “John Center” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 19:38 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.
Center table, by John Henry Belter

Center table

John Henry Belter · ca. 1855

Public domainThe Met
Chrysophyllum cainito L.

Chrysophyllum cainito L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Northumbrian Small-Pipe, by John Center

Northumbrian Small-Pipe

John Center · after 1867

Public domainThe Met
Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A. Juss.

Stigmaphyllon emarginatum (Cav.) A. Juss.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr.

Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Lantana camara L.

Lantana camara L.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist, by Juan Martínez Montañés

Saint John the Baptist

Juan Martínez Montañés · ca. 1620–30

Public domainThe Met
Prockia crucis P. Browne ex L.

Prockia crucis P. Browne ex L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Center Table

Center Table

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–60

Public domainThe Met
Eugenia biflora (L.) DC.

Eugenia biflora (L.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist, by Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)

Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) · ca. 1506–7

Public domainThe Met
Lantana camara L.

Lantana camara L.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jun 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, by John Constable

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds

John Constable · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Piper amalago L.

Piper amalago L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Feb 1989

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Citharexylum spinosum L.

Citharexylum spinosum L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Sida jamaicensis L.

Sida jamaicensis L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Classical Landscape with Roma Figures, by John Wootton

Classical Landscape with Roma Figures

John Wootton · 1748

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium barbadense L.

Gossypium barbadense L.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Salvia serotina L.

Salvia serotina L.

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. 5738 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 325889 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-04 19:38 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.