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. 15 shown for “Mathais Beitler” — 29 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 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.
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork

Mathais Beitler · after 1616

Public domainThe Met
Nostoc saxatile Zeller

Nostoc saxatile Zeller

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and a Fisherman, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and a Fisherman

Mathais Beitler · 1612

Public domainThe Met
Swartzia simplex var. grandiflora (Raddi) R.S. Cowan

Swartzia simplex var. grandiflora (Raddi) R.S. Cowan

Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Putto, Birds and Insects, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Putto, Birds and Insects

Mathais Beitler · 1612

Public domainThe Met
Passiflora spinosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Mast.

Passiflora spinosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Mast.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jul 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and Animals, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Hunter and Animals

Mathais Beitler · 1612

Public domainThe Met
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects

Mathais Beitler · 1582–1616

Public domainThe Met
Blackwork Design with Saint Jerome, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design with Saint Jerome

Mathais Beitler · 1615

Public domainThe Met
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Grotesques, Garlands, and Birds, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Grotesques, Garlands, and Birds

Mathais Beitler · 1582–1616

Public domainThe Met
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Bee-Keeper, a Farmer and a Boar, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with a Bee-Keeper, a Farmer and a Boar

Mathais Beitler · 1612

Public domainThe Met
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with the Coat of Arms of a Bishop, by Mathais Beitler

Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with the Coat of Arms of a Bishop

Mathais Beitler · 1615

Public domainThe Met
A Farmer and a Villager, from "Das Bossenbüchlein", by Mathais Beitler

A Farmer and a Villager, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582

Public domainThe Met
A Friar and a Soldier, from "Das Bossenbüchlein", by Mathais Beitler

A Friar and a Soldier, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582

Public domainThe Met
Title Plate, from "Das Bossenbüchlein", by Mathais Beitler

Title Plate, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

Mathais Beitler · ca. 1582

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. 23 matched · 23 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 3 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 2026-09-02 09:19 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.