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 “Little Wing Lee” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:03 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.
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter", by Little Wing Lee

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"

Little Wing Lee · 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian

Artist not stated in the record · 521

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter", by Little Wing Lee

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"

Little Wing Lee · 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle of Cherves

Tabernacle of Cherves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–1230

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter", by Little Wing Lee

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"

Little Wing Lee · 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity

Relief plaque with the head of a ram deity

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter", by Little Wing Lee

Pinback button with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"

Little Wing Lee · 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief head of a child god

Relief head of a child god

Artist not stated in the record · 400–200 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Metal pin with the slogan "Black Designers Matter", by Little Wing Lee

Metal pin with the slogan "Black Designers Matter"

Little Wing Lee · ca. 2016

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Flims Room

The Flims Room

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1682–84

Public domainThe Met
Story Little Gee Bee, by Tom Story

Story Little Gee Bee

Tom Story · 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Relief plaque with Wadjet and Nekhbet, the "Two Ladies"; falcon on opposite

Artist not stated in the record · 400–30 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.

Mikania scandens (L.) Willd.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/8/29

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girandole, by William F. Shaw

Girandole

William F. Shaw · after 1852

Public domainThe Met
Carya glabra var. odorata (Marshall) Little

Carya glabra var. odorata (Marshall) Little

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Master of the Saint Ursula Legend

Saint Paul with a Donor; Christ Appearing to His Mother

Master of the Saint Ursula Legend · ca. 1485

Public domainThe Met
Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Mar 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, by Gerard David

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Gerard David · ca. 1485–90

Public domainThe Met
Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 29/12/53

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wing chair

Wing chair

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Pinus elliottii var. densa Little & K.W. Dorman

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Apr 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion

Folding Devotional Shrine with Scenes from Christ's Passion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

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. 499 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. 83719 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 2026-09-04 20:03 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.