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 “Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:11 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.
Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat

Man's Court Robe (Kariginu) with Belt and Hat

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of six young men posing in front of a bandstand

Photograph of six young men posing in front of a bandstand

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saddle

Saddle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420

Public domainThe Met
Cloud Sketch, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cloud Sketch, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844 and June 1845

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of an unidentified man holding a saber

Photograph of an unidentified man holding a saber

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)

Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear

Photographic postcard of man and a seated woman in western wear

Artist not stated in the record · 1907-1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane, by Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943

Robe and trunks worn by Denzel Washington as Rubin Carter in The Hurricane

Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
Sultane Reine (The Queen Sultana), plate 29 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca), by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Sultane Reine (The Queen Sultana), plate 29 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Carthusian, by Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

Petrus Christus · 1446

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier with hat, trumpet, mandolin, and cartridge belt

Photograph of a Buffalo Soldier with hat, trumpet, mandolin, and cartridge belt

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Joos van Wassenhove

The Adoration of the Magi

Joos van Wassenhove · 1472–74

Public domainThe Met
White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

White terrycloth robe worn by Muhammad Ali during training at Deer Lake

Artist not stated in the record · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of five men posing with cigars and handguns

Photographic postcard of five men posing with cigars and handguns

Artist not stated in the record · 1904-1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Le Grand Seigneur (The Nobleman), plate 17 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca), by Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809

Le Grand Seigneur (The Nobleman), plate 17 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)

Joseph Marie Vien, French, 1716–1809 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, by Jörg Breu the Younger

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh

Jörg Breu the Younger · ca. 1534–47

Public domainThe Met
Photographic portrait of a man wearing hat and gun holster

Photographic portrait of a man wearing hat and gun holster

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century

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. 33 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. 1542025 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 02:11 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.