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. 20 shown for “Music stand used by Ginger Smock” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 00:31 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.
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Music stand used by Ginger Smock

Music stand used by Ginger Smock

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Combined work, writing, and reading table and music stand, by Martin Carlin

Combined work, writing, and reading table and music stand

Martin Carlin · ca. 1775–80

Public domainThe Met
Promotional card for the The Shipmates & Ginger

Promotional card for the The Shipmates & Ginger

Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), by Washing Painter

Terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)

Washing Painter · ca. 430–420 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Ring owned by Ginger Smock

Ring owned by Ginger Smock

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Clavichord, by Christian Kintzing

Clavichord

Christian Kintzing · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Swan shaped ring holder owned by Ginger Smock

Swan shaped ring holder owned by Ginger Smock

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record

Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record

Artist not stated in the record · 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Violin owned by Ginger Smock, by Ferdinand August Homolka, Czech, 1828 - 1890

Violin owned by Ginger Smock

Ferdinand August Homolka, Czech, 1828 - 1890 · 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Standing Lady

Standing Lady

Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Cloud Figures and Dead Birch, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 1844

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whistle, by Cupisnique artist(s)

Whistle

Cupisnique artist(s) · 1200–500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Travelling Boat being Rowed

Travelling Boat being Rowed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
ex "Kurtz" Violin, by Andrea Amati

ex "Kurtz" Violin

Andrea Amati · ca. 1560

Public domainThe Met
Figure with conical headdress and shield, by Maya artist(s)

Figure with conical headdress and shield

Maya artist(s) · 600–800 CE

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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 736004 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 00:31 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.