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. 17 shown for “Pierced Globe” — 54 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:12 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.
Pierced Globe

Pierced Globe

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Wig stand

Wig stand

Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Goa Stone and Gold Case

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
wig stand, by Factory of Leroy

wig stand

Factory of Leroy · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari, by ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari

Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari

‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari · dated 690 AH/1291 CE

Public domainThe Met
Franklin Pierce, by Marie Alexandre Alophe, 1812 - 1883

Franklin Pierce

Marie Alexandre Alophe, 1812 - 1883 · c. 1853

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, by Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · ca. 1781

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan

Pleated fan

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall clock (cartel), by Etienne LeNoir

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico, by F. Celaya

Presentation Incense Burner for Agustín de Iturbide, Emperor of Mexico

F. Celaya · 1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant Medallion with the Last Judgment

Pendant Medallion with the Last Judgment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1420

Public domainThe Met
Longcase clock, by Hermann Achenbach

Longcase clock

Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child with Two Angels, by Cosimo Rosselli

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Cosimo Rosselli · early 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Chasuble

Chasuble

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720 (figurative woven silk), ca. 1775 (embroidered orphrey), cut patched and reassembled ca. 1775

Public domainThe Met
Quilt

Quilt

Artist not stated in the record · central panel and outer border: 17th century; inner border: second half of 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Textile with crowned double headed eagles

Textile with crowned double headed eagles

Artist not stated in the record · second half 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning, by Camille Pissarro

The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

Camille Pissarro · 1899

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 18210 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 07:12 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.