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 “Paphiopedilum Black Hunter” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:42 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.
Limestone torso of a hunter

Limestone torso of a hunter

Artist not stated in the record · 1st or 2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Black Hunter

Paphiopedilum Black Hunter

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Hunters Point

Paphiopedilum Hunters Point

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 510 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum glanduliferum var. gardineri ('New Horizon' × 'Black Tiger')

Paphiopedilum glanduliferum var. gardineri ('New Horizon' × 'Black Tiger')

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Hunter Holding a Rifle, by Nicolas Lancret

Standing Hunter Holding a Rifle

Nicolas Lancret · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Lady Petula

Paphiopedilum Lady Petula

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mounted Hunter with Cheetah

Mounted Hunter with Cheetah

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Abbey Lane

Paphiopedilum Abbey Lane

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Hunter and the Dogs, by Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio

The Hunter and the Dogs

Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Cassandra's Fairy

Paphiopedilum Cassandra's Fairy

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Case (Inrō) with a Fox from the Kyōgen Play The Fox Hunter (Tsurigitsune); Hunter behind Haystacks from the Kyōgen Play "Hakuzōsu" (reverse), by Shibata Zeshin

Case (Inrō) with a Fox from the Kyōgen Play The Fox Hunter (Tsurigitsune); Hunter behind Haystacks from the Kyōgen Play "Hakuzōsu" (reverse)

Shibata Zeshin · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Battle of Egypt 'Alpha'

Paphiopedilum Battle of Egypt 'Alpha'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), by Göttingen Painter

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Göttingen Painter · ca. 500 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Boxford 'The Giant'

Paphiopedilum Boxford 'The Giant'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Red Glory

Paphiopedilum Red Glory

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel with Sketches of a Man, a Lion and an Arabesque

Panel with Sketches of a Man, a Lion and an Arabesque

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Adam Hausermann

Paphiopedilum Adam Hausermann

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff

Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunter spearing a lion before deity with staff

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 17th century BCE (?)

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Beatrice Ernst 'Charm'

Paphiopedilum Beatrice Ernst 'Charm'

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Ferdinand Bol

Portrait of a Woman

Ferdinand Bol · 1642

Public domainThe Met
Paphiopedilum Fiestalight

Paphiopedilum Fiestalight

Artist not stated in the record

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. 184 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 84915 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-05 08:42 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.