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. 21 shown for “Oscar Land” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 18:11 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.
Buddha Shakyamuni

Buddha Shakyamuni

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Land

Oscar Land

Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Adoration of the Magi

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
Cetrariella delisei (Bory ex Schaer.) Kärnefelt & A. Thell

Cetrariella delisei (Bory ex Schaer.) Kärnefelt & A. Thell

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1992

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Star deities of the northern and central dippers, by Unidentified artist

Star deities of the northern and central dippers

Unidentified artist · dated 1454

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Hammerstein II, by Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948

Oscar Hammerstein II

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1946

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Classic of Filial Piety, by Li Gonglin

The Classic of Filial Piety

Li Gonglin · ca. 1085

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Hammerstein I, by P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915?

Oscar Hammerstein I

P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915? · c. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Jan Provoost

The Crucifixion

Jan Provoost · ca. 1495

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Hammerstein I, by P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915?

Oscar Hammerstein I

P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915? · c. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion

Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Hammerstein I, by P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915?

Oscar Hammerstein I

P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915? · c. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Incense burner

Incense burner

Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-1st millennium BCE

Public domainThe Met
Oscar Hammerstein I, by P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915?

Oscar Hammerstein I

P. S. Rogers, active 1905 - 1915? · c. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”

Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2090 BCE

Public domainThe Met
New Bronx County Courthouse, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

New Bronx County Courthouse

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · (1903)

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sickle sword

Sickle sword

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1307–1275 BCE

Public domainThe Met
St. Martin, Cologne, by Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938

St. Martin, Cologne

Oscar Bluemner, American, b. Prenzlau, Germany, 1867–1938 · 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Bucket with forgery decoration

Bucket with forgery decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 9th–7th century BCE (?)

Public domainThe Met
Figurine

Figurine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2200–1750 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. 39 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. 40873 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 18:11 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.