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. 17 shown for “John Deere” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:30 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.
Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1488–1501

Public domainThe Met
John Deere Plow, by John Deere

John Deere Plow

John Deere · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Agrostis mertensii Trin.

Agrostis mertensii Trin.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a stag

Bronze statuette of a stag

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–8th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Sorbus decora (Sarg.) C.K. Schneid.

Sorbus decora (Sarg.) C.K. Schneid.

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amethyst ring stone

Amethyst ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Euphrasia arctica Lange ex Rostrup

Euphrasia arctica Lange ex Rostrup

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Hunting Scenes

Panel with Hunting Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Poa pratensis subsp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.

Poa pratensis subsp. irrigata (Lindm.) H. Lindb.

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Aug 1925

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hermit (Il solitario), by John Singer Sargent

The Hermit (Il solitario)

John Singer Sargent · 1908

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a terracotta stemmed dish

Fragment of a terracotta stemmed dish

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carnelian ring stone

Carnelian ring stone

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), by Bowdoin Painter

Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)

Bowdoin Painter · ca. 480–470 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers

Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–1600 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Christ in the Wilderness, by Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino)

Christ in the Wilderness

Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · ca. 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Purifies Water (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
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. 182 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 271027 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:30 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.