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. 18 shown for “Master I.B.” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:32 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.
Mars, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Mars, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Botanical Alphabet Cross-Stitch, by Ira Blount

Botanical Alphabet Cross-Stitch

Ira Blount · 1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venus, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Venus, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1529

Public domainThe Met
Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.

Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mercury, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Mercury, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Dillenia aurea Sm.

Dillenia aurea Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/6/8

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sun, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Sun, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Orthosiphon rubicundus (D. Don) Benth.

Orthosiphon rubicundus (D. Don) Benth.

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Jupiter, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Mattel View-Master owned by Michael Holman

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1984

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets", by Master I.B.

Saturn, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

Master I.B. · 1525

Public domainThe Met
Spizella passerina passerina

Spizella passerina passerina

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi, by Master of Pedret

The Virgin and Child in Majesty and the Adoration of the Magi

Master of Pedret · ca. 1100

Public domainThe Met
Diana and the Stag, by Joachim Friess

Diana and the Stag

Joachim Friess · ca. 1620

Public domainThe Met
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
Margaret of Austria, by Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins)

Margaret of Austria

Jean Hey (called Master of Moulins) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Rolltop desk, by David Roentgen

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen · ca. 1776–79

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. 1044 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. 4452 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:32 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.