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 “Matchsafe in the Form of a Boot” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 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.
Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Finial in the Form of a Parrot

Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Matchsafe in the Form of a Boot

Matchsafe in the Form of a Boot

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni · 1913, cast 1950

Public domainThe Met
Boot

Boot

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Boot with Spur

Boot with Spur

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Terracotta askos in the form of a boar

Artist not stated in the record · 4th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Filigree Shoe

Filigree Shoe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase) in the form of a woman holding a dove

Artist not stated in the record · mid-6th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair), by Alessandro Algardi

Andiron with figure of Juno (chenet) (one of a pair)

Alessandro Algardi · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Worn Shoe Sole

Worn Shoe Sole

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
David and Goliath, by Francesco Fanelli

David and Goliath

Francesco Fanelli · 17th century cast

Public domainThe Met
Matchsafe in the form of a Cicada

Matchsafe in the form of a Cicada

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crowned Buddha

Crowned Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware", by Whitehead & Hoag Company

Advertisement for "Hulbert & Parker, Fashionable Footware"

Whitehead & Hoag Company · 1900–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boot

Boot

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Matchsafe in the form of a domino

Matchsafe in the form of a domino

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Buddha

Seated Buddha

Artist not stated in the record · 1st to mid-2nd century

Public domainThe Met
Matchsafe

Matchsafe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaikuntha Vishnu

Vaikuntha Vishnu

Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Matchsafe and Cigar Cutter

Matchsafe and Cigar Cutter

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blanket Chest, by United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

Blanket Chest

United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”) · 1835–75

Public domainThe Met
Female Skier, by Webster Company

Female Skier

Webster Company · ca. 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. 17489 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. 7484477 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 20:17 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.