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. 19 shown for “Pierced Window Screen (Jali)” — 47 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:06 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 Window Screen (Jali)

Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

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

Public domainThe Met
Birdcage

Birdcage

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

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

Public domainThe Met
A Pierced Screen, Urn, a Fountain and Two Basins, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

A Pierced Screen, Urn, a Fountain and Two Basins

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Ilex cymosa Blume

Ilex cymosa Blume

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 23/1/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Santiria laevigata Blume

Santiria laevigata Blume

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/2/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Screen with Letters against a Vegetal Pattern (and Additional Fragments of a Screen)

Pierced Screen with Letters against a Vegetal Pattern (and Additional Fragments of a Screen)

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Lampornis sybillae

Lampornis sybillae

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase

Vase

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Persea duthiei (King) Kosterm.

Persea duthiei (King) Kosterm.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Writing table (bureau plat), by Gilles Joubert

Writing table (bureau plat)

Gilles Joubert · 1759

Public domainThe Met
Prunus communis Huds.

Prunus communis Huds.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Agelaea borneensis (Hook. f.) Merr.

Agelaea borneensis (Hook. f.) Merr.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 15/3/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Parastemon urophyllus (Wall. ex A. DC.) A. DC.

Parastemon urophyllus (Wall. ex A. DC.) A. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 13/2/68

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campylotropis bonatiana (Pamp.) Schindl.

Campylotropis bonatiana (Pamp.) Schindl.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mallotus penangensis Müll. Arg.

Mallotus penangensis Müll. Arg.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pedicularis murreeana R.R. Mill & Bone

Pedicularis murreeana R.R. Mill & Bone

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1948

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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 5193331 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 11:06 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.