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 Ingram” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:31 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 Seller of Celery, by John Ingram

The Seller of Celery

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
L'École Domestique

L'École Domestique

Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Young Housekeeper, by John Ingram

The Young Housekeeper

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
La Bonne Mere

La Bonne Mere

Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Egg Merchant, by John Ingram

The Egg Merchant

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
La Quêteuse de Grand Chemin

La Quêteuse de Grand Chemin

Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Chinese Gardener, by John Ingram

The Chinese Gardener

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
La Crêmiére

La Crêmiére

Artist not stated in the record · after 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese Bell Music, by John Ingram

Chinese Bell Music

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)

Close Stool Pan (Commode Pot)

Artist not stated in the record · 1778 - 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chinese Curiosities, by John Ingram

Chinese Curiosities

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Eriodictyon sessilifolium Greene

Eriodictyon sessilifolium Greene

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flower Girl Fanchonette, by John Ingram

The Flower Girl Fanchonette

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Amsinckia tessellata A. Gray

Amsinckia tessellata A. Gray

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Apr 1954

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Master Gardener, by John Ingram

The Master Gardener

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Muilla maritima (Torr.) S. Watson

Muilla maritima (Torr.) S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Master Gardener, by John Ingram

The Master Gardener

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Bloomeria clevelandii S. Watson

Bloomeria clevelandii S. Watson

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Apr 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Small Dog Standing on Hind Legs, by John Ingram

The Small Dog Standing on Hind Legs

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Eriastrum eremicum (Jeps.) H. Mason

Eriastrum eremicum (Jeps.) H. Mason

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Savoyard with His Box, by John Ingram

The Savoyard with His Box

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Ipomopsis longiflora (Torr.) V.E. Grant

Ipomopsis longiflora (Torr.) V.E. Grant

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Apr 1955

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Game of Chinese Chess, by John Ingram

The Game of Chinese Chess

John Ingram · 1741–63

Public domainThe Met
Phlox stansburyi (Torr.) A. Heller

Phlox stansburyi (Torr.) A. Heller

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Apr 1955

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. 28 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. 261347 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 2026-09-01 20:31 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.