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. 22 shown for “Medallion” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 11:20 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.
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century (before 1227)

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · before 1227

Public domainThe Met
Five Medallion Carpet

Five Medallion Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion with return from a spring outing

Medallion with return from a spring outing

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by Rüger

Medallion

Rüger · ca. 1780

Public domainThe Met
Medallion

Medallion

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by F. N. Mitchell

Medallion

F. N. Mitchell · 1867

Public domainThe Met
Medallion button

Medallion button

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by Godel & Co. Fine Art

Medallion

Godel & Co. Fine Art · 1819

Public domainThe Met
Medallions

Medallions

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by Christian Gobrecht

Medallion

Christian Gobrecht · 1824

Public domainThe Met
Medallion, by B. L. Vett

Medallion

B. L. Vett · 1800–1830

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by Augustin Dupré

Medallion

Augustin Dupré · 1786

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Untitled, by Augustin Dupré

Untitled

Augustin Dupré · 1784

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medallion, by Jean-Jacques Barre

Medallion

Jean-Jacques Barre · 1833

Public domainThe Met
Button

Button

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th 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. 2728 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3746 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-08-28 11:20 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.