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. 20 shown for “Man's mantle (hinggi)” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:41 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.
Mantle

Mantle

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Man's mantle (hinggi)

Man's mantle (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

Artist not stated in the record · 27 BCE–68 CE

Public domainThe Met
Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Man's wrapper (hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Box with Romance Scenes

Box with Romance Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1310–30

Public domainThe Met
Hinggi (ceremonial men's wrapper)

Hinggi (ceremonial men's wrapper)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man's Mantle

Man's Mantle

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century (?)

Public domainThe Met
Hinggi kombu (men's ceremonial wrapper)

Hinggi kombu (men's ceremonial wrapper)

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze statuette of a man

Bronze statuette of a man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Asia", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Asia"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mask of a man with hair combed forward and a mantle

Mask of a man with hair combed forward and a mantle

Artist not stated in the record · early 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "America", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "America"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–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
Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Man's Shoulder or Hip Cloth (Hinggi)

Man's Shoulder or Hip Cloth (Hinggi)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Allegorical Figure of "Africa", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery, by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

Chimneypiece Design with Decorated Panels, Suitable for a Gallery

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · 1737-1742

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure of "Europe", by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

Allegorical Figure of "Europe"

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present · 18th–19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1000–1450

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. 88 matched · 24 examined · 16 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 61254 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-08-31 21:41 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.