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. 23 shown for “Lacquer Covers of the Davis Album” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:08 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.
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), by Jean Henri Riesener

Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

Jean Henri Riesener · 1783

Public domainThe Met
An album, bound in painted leather covers, containing paintings and calligraphies

An album, bound in painted leather covers, containing paintings and calligraphies

Artist not stated in the record · Assembled in 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical table

Jean-François Oeben · ca. 1761–63

Public domainThe Met
Cartoon

Cartoon

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Gusoku) with Box, by Neo Masanobu 根尾正信

Armor (Gusoku) with Box

Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Union Patriotic Cover

Union Patriotic Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lacquer Covers of the Davis Album

Lacquer Covers of the Davis Album

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1217 AH/ 1802–3 CE

Public domainThe Met
Union Patriotic Cover

Union Patriotic Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Ceremonial Armors for Man (Dingjia) and Horse

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Box and cover

Box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit

Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Union Patriotic Cover

Union Patriotic Cover

Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Armor (Yoroi) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

Artist not stated in the record · early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Patch box and cover

Patch box and cover

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments, by Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops

Royal processions, ceremonies and entertainments

Court of King Mindon or Thibaw, or associated workshops · 1870s–1880s

Public domainThe Met
Revenge

Revenge

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commode, by Bernard II van Risenburgh

Commode

Bernard II van Risenburgh · ca. 1740–45

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson

Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja), by Kaikei

Fudō Myōō, the Immovable Wisdom King (Achala Vidyaraja)

Kaikei · early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby D. Munro

Artist not stated in the record · 1876

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuirass (Hara-Ate)

Cuirass (Hara-Ate)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox

Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table à la Bourgogne, by René Dubois

Mechanical table à la Bourgogne

René Dubois · ca. 1760

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. 1192 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. 3002490 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:08 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.