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. 14 shown for “Left Breastplates from Two Brigandines” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 17:42 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.
Left Breastplates from Two Brigandines

Left Breastplates from Two Brigandines

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Public domainThe Met
Erminia and the Shepherd [above]; Atalanta hunting the Calydonian Boar [below], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Erminia and the Shepherd [above]; Atalanta hunting the Calydonian Boar [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1596 – 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right breastplate from a brigandine

Right breastplate from a brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Tile

Tile

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Public domainThe Met
Mount

Mount

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Right Breastplate from a Brigandine

Right Breastplate from a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Public domainThe Met
Drapery Study for "The Active Life," Lunette in the Administration Building, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Drapery Study for "The Active Life," Lunette in the Administration Building, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450

Public domainThe Met
Right and Left Breastplates from a Brigandine

Right and Left Breastplates from a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of the Left Half of the Front of a Brigandine

Fragment of the Left Half of the Front of a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1425

Public domainThe Met
Brigandine Armor

Brigandine Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400 and later

Public domainThe Met
Armor

Armor

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later

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. 48 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. 470179 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 2026-09-08 17:42 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.