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. 16 shown for “Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:19 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.
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Narcissa, by Daniel Chester French, born Exeter, NH 1850-died Stockbridge, MA 1931

Narcissa

Daniel Chester French, born Exeter, NH 1850-died Stockbridge, MA 1931 · modeled 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Model Dish from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Vegetable dish, cover and plate

Vegetable dish, cover and plate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish

Dish

Artist not stated in the record · 1425–50

Public domainThe Met
Pioneer 10 / 11, reconstructed full-scale mock-up, by TRW, Inc.

Pioneer 10 / 11, reconstructed full-scale mock-up

TRW, Inc.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Model Dish from a Foundation Depsoit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model, Deep Space Network Antenna, 1:140 scale, by NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Model, Deep Space Network Antenna, 1:140 scale

NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Reconstruction of a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1396–1386 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1425 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Carpenter's Adze from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Dish from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

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. 1392 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. 1966244 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:19 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.