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 “Peacock” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
Peacock, by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Peacock

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755

Public domainThe Met
Peacock

Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock

Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Skewer with Cornucopia and Peacock Terminal

Skewer with Cornucopia and Peacock Terminal

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock, by Meissen Manufactory

Peacock

Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Public domainThe Met
The Peacock

The Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock, by Meissen Manufactory

Peacock

Meissen Manufactory · 1741

Public domainThe Met
Peacock in a Garden, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Peacock in a Garden

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · 1875–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish with Peacock Design

Dish with Peacock Design

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Peacock Feathers, by Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919

Sketchbook Page: Peacock Feathers

Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1875

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juno and the peacock, by Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

Juno and the peacock

Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Woman and Peacock, by Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Woman and Peacock

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Peacocks and Amorini, by Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915

Peacocks and Amorini

Walter Crane, English, 1845–1915 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peacock (one of a pair), by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Peacock (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1755–58

Public domainThe Met
Peacock Coal

Peacock Coal

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii

Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bottle Depicting a Peacock in Foliage

Bottle Depicting a Peacock in Foliage

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Peacock

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Bandbox

Bandbox

Artist not stated in the record · 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Work box in the form of a peacock

Work box in the form of a peacock

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

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. 797 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. 1680 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-08-27 21:05 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.