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 “Motacilla alba alba” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:35 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.
Armor of the Dukes of Alba, by Lucio Piccinino

Armor of the Dukes of Alba

Lucio Piccinino · ca. 1575–85

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo), by Luigi Crosio

Furtive message (Messaggio furtivo)

Luigi Crosio · 1870–71

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1810

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 30 Mar 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goa Stone and Gold Case

Goa Stone and Gold Case

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

Public domainThe Met
Serving knife (Présentoir)

Serving knife (Présentoir)

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Bernard van Orley

The Last Supper

Bernard van Orley · ca. 1525–28

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · May 1877

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Book of Flower Studies, by Master of Claude de France

Book of Flower Studies

Master of Claude de France · ca. 1510–1515

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Oct ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Bernard van Orley

The Crucifixion

Bernard van Orley · design ca. 1515, woven ca. 1525

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Man of Sorrows, by Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono)

The Man of Sorrows

Michele Giambono (Michele Giovanni Bono) · ca. 1430

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea, by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

Narcisa Barañano Gayoso de Goicoechea

Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1805

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stirrup-spout bottle with owl, by Moche artist(s)

Stirrup-spout bottle with owl

Moche artist(s) · 200–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Oct 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Model Lotus Flower

Model Lotus Flower

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 11652 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-03 15:35 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.