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. 23 shown for “Paper Doll Costume with Dotted Pattern and Emerald Green Bows” — 53 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:55 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.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume with Dotted Pattern and Emerald Green Bows

Paper Doll Costume with Dotted Pattern and Emerald Green Bows

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary mask, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Funerary mask

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in White Fur with Pink Bow

Paper Doll Costume in White Fur with Pink Bow

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), by Paul Gauguin

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)

Paul Gauguin · 1891

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll and Costume in Emerald Green and Pink Roses

Paper Doll and Costume in Emerald Green and Pink Roses

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Enameled and Gilded Bottle

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling paper, by Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA

Ceiling paper

Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA · 1905–1915

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), by Auguste Renoir

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)

Auguste Renoir · 1878

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace

Paper Doll Costume in Pink and White Lace

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522), by Hans Holbein the Younger

Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)

Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes

Paper Doll Costume with Floral and Blue Vertical Stripes

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vessel with throne scene, by Chamá artist(s)

Vessel with throne scene

Chamá artist(s) · 600–900 CE

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Mosque Lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al-'Ala'i al-Bunduqdar

Artist not stated in the record · shortly after 1285

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern

Paper Doll Costume in Blue with Flower Pattern

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes in and around the Capital

Scenes in and around the Capital

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll Costume in Black with Red Shawl

Paper Doll Costume in Black with Red Shawl

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jar, Ritual Scenes

Jar, Ritual Scenes

Artist not stated in the record · 8th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Miser's purse

Miser's purse

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity Polyptych, by Rogier van der Weyden

The Nativity Polyptych

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1450–60

Public domainThe Met
Paper Doll and Costume

Paper Doll and Costume

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paper Doll Costume, White Veiled Dress

Paper Doll Costume, White Veiled Dress

Artist not stated in the record · 1876–80

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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1613865 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 2026-09-06 16:55 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.