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. 16 shown for “Leaf from a Diptych” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:01 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.
Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Leaf from a Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S., by L. S.

Portable Diptych Sundial Signed L.S.

L. S. · 1518

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Diptych

Leaf from a Diptych

Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Diptych with the Crucifixion and Nativity, by Master of Kremsmünster

Leaf from a Diptych with the Crucifixion and Nativity

Master of Kremsmünster · ca. 1375–1400

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · After 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych, by Master BP

Diptych

Master BP · 1736

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf from a Diptych with the Adoration of the Magi

Leaf from a Diptych with the Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350–75

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Diptych with the Virgin and Child and Angels

Leaf from a Diptych with the Virgin and Child and Angels

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Diptych with the Coronation, Annunciation, and Visitation

Leaf from a Diptych with the Coronation, Annunciation, and Visitation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–50

Public domainThe Met
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Painted Diptych

Painted Diptych

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Diptych with the Crucifixion and Annunciation

Leaf from a Diptych with the Crucifixion and Annunciation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1350

Public domainThe Met
Diptych

Diptych

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Leaf from a Diptych with the Adoration of the Magi

Leaf from a Diptych with the Adoration of the Magi

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1325

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. 3161 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1953054 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 04:01 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.