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 “Master ES” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 11:21 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.
The Letter E, from The Alphabet, by Master ES

The Letter E, from The Alphabet

Master ES · 1466–67

Public domainThe Met
Centrapalus pauciflorus (Willd.) H. Rob.

Centrapalus pauciflorus (Willd.) H. Rob.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 4/8/84

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Savior, by Master ES

The Savior

Master ES · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dialium holtzii Harms

Dialium holtzii Harms

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation, by Master ES

The Visitation

Master ES · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K. Heyne

Peltophorum pterocarpum (DC.) Backer ex K. Heyne

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Master ES

The Annunciation

Master ES · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Scorodophloeus fischeri (Taub.) J. Léonard

Scorodophloeus fischeri (Taub.) J. Léonard

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Visitation, by Master ES

The Visitation

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Mezoneuron angolense Oliv.

Mezoneuron angolense Oliv.

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Dec 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sibyl and Emperor Augustus, by Master ES

The Sibyl and Emperor Augustus

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Eriocaulon elegantulum Engl.

Eriocaulon elegantulum Engl.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Sudarium with St. Peter and St. Paul, by Master ES

The Sudarium with St. Peter and St. Paul

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Erythrina edulis Triana

Erythrina edulis Triana

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leaf-ornament with a Heron, by Master ES

Leaf-ornament with a Heron

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chlorodesmis hildebrandtii

Chlorodesmis hildebrandtii

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1962 to 13 Oct 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John the Baptist in the Desert, by Master ES

St. John the Baptist in the Desert

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Grewia forbesii Harv. ex Mast.

Grewia forbesii Harv. ex Mast.

Artist not stated in the record · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament with a Wild Man, by Master ES

Ornament with a Wild Man

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Grewia forbesii Harv. ex Mast.

Grewia forbesii Harv. ex Mast.

Artist not stated in the record · 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. George, from the series The Apostles, by Master ES

St. George, from the series The Apostles

Master ES · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Cystoseira myrica

Cystoseira myrica

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Oct 1962 to 13 Oct 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Knight and the Lady, by Master ES

The Knight and the Lady

Master ES · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Chassalia umbraticola Vatke

Chassalia umbraticola Vatke

Artist not stated in the record · 1894

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. 65 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 15994 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-29 11:21 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.