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. 16 shown for “Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit” — 44 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:50 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.
Prayer in the Mosque, by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Prayer in the Mosque

Jean-Léon Gérôme · by 1874

Public domainThe Met
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Jan 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1904 to Dec 1904

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1912

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit var. aherniana

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit var. aherniana

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Phanera aherniana (G. Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1905 to May 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1919 to Nov 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · May 1917 to Jun 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera merrilliana (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Mar 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Phanera finlaysoniana var. leptopus (Perkins) de Wit

Artist not stated in the record · May 1909

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1286293 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 23:50 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.