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 “Mat Weight in the Shape of a Doe” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 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.

Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 3

Photograph of James A. Parsons Jr. at age 3

Artist not stated in the record · 1903-1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cotton scale with weight

Cotton scale with weight

Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th-mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Snuff Box in Shape of a Moor's Head

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samples from Malmaison, by Augustin François André Picot, French

Samples from Malmaison

Augustin François André Picot, French · 1804

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mâts placés sur le Pont-Neuf aux Fêtes de Juillet 1838 (Flagpole for Pont Neuf, Paris, July Festival 1838), by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

Mâts placés sur le Pont-Neuf aux Fêtes de Juillet 1838 (Flagpole for Pont Neuf, Paris, July Festival 1838)

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set of Demitasse Spoons in Raphael Pattern, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Set of Demitasse Spoons in Raphael Pattern

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · patented 1874, produced late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Detail de la base des mats places sur le pont-neuf en Juillet 1838", by Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870

"Detail de la base des mats places sur le pont-neuf en Juillet 1838"

Félix Duban, French, 1797 - 1870 · 1838

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family, by S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853

White and pink pitcher and washbowl owned by members of the Ellis family

S. Bridgwood & Son, English, 1805 - 1853 · late 19th-early 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, by Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623

Plate 8, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623 · 1616–1623

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Table mat

Table mat

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 7483888 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.