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 with Fish, Bats, and Clouds” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:07 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 with Fish, Bats, and Clouds

Panel with Fish, Bats, and Clouds

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Panels

Panels

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Harpies, Fish, and Trees

Panel with Harpies, Fish, and Trees

Artist not stated in the record · 11th–12th century

Public domainThe Met
Daoist priest's robe

Daoist priest's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set), by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

Daybed (Lit de repos or sultane) (part of a set)

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené · 1788

Public domainThe Met
Man's robe

Man's robe

Artist not stated in the record · 1796–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with dragons amid clouds

Panel with dragons amid clouds

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons, by Kano Mitsunobu

Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

Kano Mitsunobu · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Cream and red appliqued quilted bedcover, by Unidentified

Cream and red appliqued quilted bedcover

Unidentified · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame, by Unidentified

Black clutch purse with gold kiss lock frame

Unidentified · mid 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, by Gerard David

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Bernard Johnson jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles, by Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997

Bernard Johnson jacket worn by Melvin Van Peebles

Bernard Johnson, American, 1936 - 1997 · 2000 - 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, by Gerard David

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate

Gerard David · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Black velvet belt with gold trim by Jay Smith, by Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986

Black velvet belt with gold trim by Jay Smith

Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fish Market, by Joachim Beuckelaer

Fish Market

Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Black velvet belt with gold metallic thread by Jay Smith, by Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986

Black velvet belt with gold metallic thread by Jay Smith

Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mechanical table, by Jean Henri Riesener

Mechanical table

Jean Henri Riesener · 1781

Public domainThe Met
Souvenir square

Souvenir square

Artist not stated in the record · 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family, by Unidentified

Hinged wooden box owned by members of the Ellis family

Unidentified · 1875-1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for Wall Panel on Theme of Diana, by Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772

Design for Wall Panel on Theme of Diana

Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772 · ca. 1730

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. 610 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1644456 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-02 07:07 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.