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. 19 shown for “Padded Case” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 02:31 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.
Padded Case

Padded Case

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Dress designed by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · mid-1950s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by George Astor

Square Piano

George Astor · 1784–98

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan and case

Pleated fan and case

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Square Piano, by Corneille Charles Emanuel van der Does

Square Piano

Corneille Charles Emanuel van der Does · ca. 1800

Public domainThe Met
Bottle case and cover

Bottle case and cover

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rectangular Octave Virginal

Rectangular Octave Virginal

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Tintype of James Washington

Tintype of James Washington

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upright Piano, by Friedrich Bernhard Voigt

Upright Piano

Friedrich Bernhard Voigt · 1832

Public domainThe Met
Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case

Glasses of Henry W. Dennis with eyeglass case

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Upright piano and reed organ

Upright piano and reed organ

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

Public domainThe Met
Instrument case owned by Stanely Clarke

Instrument case owned by Stanely Clarke

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saya Inrō with Pine and Ivy (obverse) and Bamboo Grove (reverse)

Saya Inrō with Pine and Ivy (obverse) and Bamboo Grove (reverse)

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Chatelaine

Chatelaine

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Claviorganum, by Lorenz Hauslaib

Claviorganum

Lorenz Hauslaib · 1598

Public domainThe Met
Chest of Drawers, by John Goddard

Chest of Drawers

John Goddard · 1755–85

Public domainThe Met
Vase, by Fredolin Kreischmann

Vase

Fredolin Kreischmann · ca. 1895–98

Public domainThe Met
Armchair, by Georges Jacob

Armchair

Georges Jacob · ca. 1785

Public domainThe Met
Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for tablet 66.245.20a: statement before witnesses

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for tablet 66.245.20a: statement before witnesses

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 20th–19th century 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 · 6 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. 24275 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 02:31 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.