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 “Ogee ripple frame” — 64 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:14 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.
Ogee ripple frame

Ogee ripple frame

Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century, style ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ogee frame

Ogee frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700–1720

Public domainThe Met
Carpet fragment

Carpet fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 1860–1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ogee frame

Ogee frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720–30 (?)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gilt ripple frame

Gilt ripple frame

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Jar and lid

Jar and lid

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse ogee frame

Reverse ogee frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1645

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle frame

Tabernacle frame

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Mouldings, by C. C., French, active 19th c.

Design for the Decoration of Mouldings

C. C., French, active 19th c. · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Late 17th-century style Ogee frame

Late 17th-century style Ogee frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1870–80

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Early 18th-century style Ogee frame

Early 18th-century style Ogee frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1850–65

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Tabernacle

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609), by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Temptation, by Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

The Temptation

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1648

Public domainThe Met
Double Rainbow over Niagara Falls, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Double Rainbow over Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1856 or 1858

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Supper at Emmaus, by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

The Supper at Emmaus

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1622–23

Public domainThe Met
Distant Iceberg, Canada, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Distant Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · June–July 1859

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. 112 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. 15879 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-31 23:14 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.