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 “Mitre” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:47 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.
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Episcopal Mitre

Episcopal Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Kettle Mitre

Kettle Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Plaited Mitre

Plaited Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Lens Mitre

Lens Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Pontifical Mitre

Pontifical Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · 1815–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre

Mitre

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Half-pitted Mitre

Half-pitted Mitre

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Kneeling and Two Standing Figures, by Nicola Maria Rossi

Two Kneeling and Two Standing Figures

Nicola Maria Rossi · 1690–1758

Public domainThe Met
Phyllanthus urinaria L.

Phyllanthus urinaria L.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre Shaped Cap

Mitre Shaped Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–14th century

Public domainThe Met
Chloris barbata Sw.

Chloris barbata Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 7 Apr 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mitre Shaped Cap

Mitre Shaped Cap

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Urena lobata L.

Urena lobata L.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jul 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bishop with a Book

Bishop with a Book

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Muhlenbergia rigens (Benth.) Hitchc.

Muhlenbergia rigens (Benth.) Hitchc.

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Jul 1947

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. 100 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. 186 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-04 21:47 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.