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. 24 shown for “Maerten de Cock” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 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.
Landscape with Fishermen, by Maerten de Cock

Landscape with Fishermen

Maerten de Cock · ca. 1588–1661

Public domainThe Met
Benjamin Cocke, by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852

Benjamin Cocke

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Springtime, by Pierre-Auguste Cot

Springtime

Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873

Public domainThe Met
Balance cock / coque de montre

Balance cock / coque de montre

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, by Emanuel de Witte

Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft

Emanuel de Witte · probably 1650

Public domainThe Met
Balance cock / coque de montre

Balance cock / coque de montre

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Maerten de Vos, by Aegidius Sadeler II

Maerten de Vos

Aegidius Sadeler II

Public domainThe Met
Balance cock / coque de montre

Balance cock / coque de montre

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, by James Cox

Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock

James Cox · 1766

Public domainThe Met
Jane Cocking Glover, by Pietro Bonanni, 26 Nov 1789 - 15 Jun 1821

Jane Cocking Glover

Pietro Bonanni, 26 Nov 1789 - 15 Jun 1821 · 1821

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Public domainThe Met
Projects for a statuary group: "Friendship," "Accord", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for a statuary group: "Friendship," "Accord"

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug), by Lotus-Cross Painter

Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

Lotus-Cross Painter · ca. 570–550 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised.", by Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Jan Claudius de Cock, Flemish, 1667 - 1735 · 1726

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos (flask with a spout) in the form of a cock

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout) in the form of a cock

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of 3rd century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Scroll- and Bandwork Escutcheon

Scroll- and Bandwork Escutcheon

Artist not stated in the record · 1566

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta jug with lid

Terracotta jug with lid

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 550–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Croton astroites Dryand.

Croton astroites Dryand.

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct 2005

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos (flask) in the form of a rooster

Terracotta askos (flask) in the form of a rooster

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch, by Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885

Plate Design with Pair of Exotic Birds on a Blossoming Branch

Amédée de Caranza, active Longwy and Bordeaux, ca. 1867 – 1885 · 1875–85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Pride of Women: Ruffs, by Maerten de Vos

The Pride of Women: Ruffs

Maerten de Vos · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 1848–52

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. 346 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. 613763 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 12:19 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.