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 “Panel (one of a pair)” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:07 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.
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · second half 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Sgabello

Sgabello

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Boiserie from the Hôtel Lauzun

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770, with one modern panel

Public domainThe Met
Sgabello

Sgabello

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
One of a Pair of Tea Caddies, by Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728

One of a Pair of Tea Caddies

Simon Pantin I, British, ca. 1680 – 1728 · 1716

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female bust in an oval medallion draped with a garland (one of a pair), by French Painter

Female bust in an oval medallion draped with a garland (one of a pair)

French Painter · 1770–75

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Female bust in an oval medallion draped with a garland (one of a pair), by French Painter

Female bust in an oval medallion draped with a garland (one of a pair)

French Painter · 1770–75

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · early 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–35

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel (one of a pair)

Panel (one of a pair)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725–35

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing shelf (one of a pair), by William Linnell

Standing shelf (one of a pair)

William Linnell · ca. 1753–54

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1725

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. 6749 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. 3969181 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 04:07 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.