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. 19 shown for “Joseph Collier” — 50 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:54 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.
Coffeepot, by Joseph Collier

Coffeepot

Joseph Collier · 1731–32

Public domainThe Met
His Master's Voice, by Walter Joseph Enright, 1879 - 1969

His Master's Voice

Walter Joseph Enright, 1879 - 1969 · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature kettle with stand, by Joseph Collier

Miniature kettle with stand

Joseph Collier · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Malachra urens Poit. ex Ledeb.

Malachra urens Poit. ex Ledeb.

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Thomas Rowlandson · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Sapindus saponaria L. subsp. saponaria

Sapindus saponaria L. subsp. saponaria

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Thomas Rowlandson · 1808

Public domainThe Met
Salvia micrantha Vahl

Salvia micrantha Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, by Thomas Rowlandson

The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Thomas Rowlandson · February 8, 1808

Public domainThe Met
Galactia cubensis Kunth

Galactia cubensis Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Dec 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth

Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth

Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Nectandra coriacea (Sw.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Dec 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter in Engl.

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter in Engl.

Trichostigma octandrum (L.) H. Walter in Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1891

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 86630 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 09:54 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.