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. 14 shown for “Master Mason Stephen Lote” — 51 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:41 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.
Tracery Arcade from the Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral, by Master Mason Stephen Lote

Tracery Arcade from the Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral

Master Mason Stephen Lote · ca. 1426–1435

Public domainThe Met
Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg, by Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Prince Hall Affiliation, founded 1873

Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg

Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge of Freemasons, Prince Hall Affiliation, founded 1873 · March 5, 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, by Master of Monte Oliveto

Saints and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Master of Monte Oliveto · ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Masonic Invitation

Masonic Invitation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Herber W. Hull Owney tag

Herber W. Hull Owney tag

Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Taddeo Gaddi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Luca di Tommè di Nuto

Madonna and Child

Luca di Tommè di Nuto · ca. 1360–65

Public domainThe Met
Mold Fragment with Musicians

Mold Fragment with Musicians

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati, by Mirabello Cavalori

Portrait of a Knight of Malta, Probably Fra Jacopo Salviati

Mirabello Cavalori · 1566

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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 92055 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:41 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.