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. 12 shown for “Master of the Holy Blood” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:05 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Flier advertising S.S. Jones farewell meeting, by Unidentified

Flier advertising S.S. Jones farewell meeting

Unidentified · ca. 1924

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Mughal Prince Parvez and a Holy Man

The Mughal Prince Parvez and a Holy Man

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Holy Water Spout

Design for a Holy Water Spout

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family, by Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800

Holy Family

Samuel Ireland, English, ca. 1744–1800 · 1794

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Descent of the Holy Spirit (The Pentecost), from The Little Passion Series

The Descent of the Holy Spirit (The Pentecost), from The Little Passion Series

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Butterfly

The Holy Family with Butterfly

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1495

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

The Holy Family

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1620–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Holy Water Stoup, by Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739

Design for a Holy Water Stoup

Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739 · ca.1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Holy Water Font

Project for a Holy Water Font

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Trinity with the Dead Christ in Glory after Palma Giovane; Adoration of the Magi, Study after Lodovico Carracci, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Holy Trinity with the Dead Christ in Glory after Palma Giovane; Adoration of the Magi, Study after Lodovico Carracci

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Bible

The Holy Bible

Artist not stated in the record · after 1900

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2984525 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 01:05 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.