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 “Piece from a Kosode with Garden Fence” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 05:44 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.
Piece from a Kosode with Garden Fence

Piece from a Kosode with Garden Fence

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Decorative wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons

Decorative wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Gathering

Garden Gathering

Artist not stated in the record · 1640–50

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service), by Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849

Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Garden Scene from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849 · 1821–24

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Robe (Kosode) with Cherry Blossoms and Cypress Fence

Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Man in a Garden, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man in a Garden

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

Artist not stated in the record · 1495–1505

Public domainThe Met
Man with Birdcages, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man with Birdcages

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

Bowl With Musicians in a Garden

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

Public domainThe Met
Man Ringing a Bell, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man Ringing a Bell

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Garden Fountain

Garden Fountain

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Le Jardin des Plantes, by Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818

Le Jardin des Plantes

Favre Petitpierre, France, 1802–1818 · 1802–1818

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Summer Kosode (katabira) with Ivy and Garden Fence

Piece from a Summer Kosode (katabira) with Ivy and Garden Fence

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Stereograph of deceased Confederate soldiers near a fence at Antietam, Maryland

Stereograph of deceased Confederate soldiers near a fence at Antietam, Maryland

Artist not stated in the record · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cabinet, by George A. Schastey & Co.

Cabinet

George A. Schastey & Co. · 1884–85

Public domainThe Met
Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï, by Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703

Salon rond de Six Portiques de treillage au Jardin du H[---] President Nicolaï

Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703 · 1658–1703

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pieces from a Kosode with Flowers, Vines, and Garden Fence

Pieces from a Kosode with Flowers, Vines, and Garden Fence

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
Stereograph of deceased soldiers on the battlefield after Gettysburg

Stereograph of deceased soldiers on the battlefield after Gettysburg

Artist not stated in the record · 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nymph with a Shell, by Antoine Coysevox

Nymph with a Shell

Antoine Coysevox · Late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Man Skating, by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808

Man Skating

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808 · 1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece from a Kosode with Camellias and Fence

Piece from a Kosode with Camellias and Fence

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–first half of the 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Khusrau and Shirin, by Hatifi

Khusrau and Shirin

Hatifi · dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

Public domainThe Met
Photographic postcard of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan

Photographic postcard of Rev. Nelson W. Jordan

Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1922

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. 649 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2063735 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-29 05:44 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.