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. 21 shown for “Pascal Coste” — 59 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:17 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.
Architecture arabe : ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826, by Pascal Coste

Architecture arabe : ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826

Pascal Coste · 1839

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Portrait of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Artist not stated in the record · 1696-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation, by Hans Memling

The Annunciation

Hans Memling · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Embroidered picture

Embroidered picture

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Sampler

Sampler

Artist not stated in the record · 1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier Pascal, by Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808

Chandelier Pascal

Clément Pierre Marillier, French, 1740 – 1808 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Chandelier Pascal, by Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760

Chandelier Pascal

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760 · 1742–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo

Panel from Sultan Lajin's Minbar at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Vaccinium sp.

Vaccinium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

Public domainThe Met
Panel

Panel

Artist not stated in the record · dated 1296

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 2525 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:17 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.