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. 14 shown for “Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree” — 42 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 02:43 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.
Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Platter (Ōzara) with Pine Tree

Artist not stated in the record · early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by W. S. Coleman

Platter

W. S. Coleman · 1871

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boulder with Daoist paradise

Boulder with Daoist paradise

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Geisha Holding Fish on Platter

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fantastical Garden with Figures, by Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769

Fantastical Garden with Figures

Alexis Peyrotte, French, 1699–1769 · 1738–49

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pemadumcook Pines, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Pemadumcook Pines, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 3, 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woods with Pine Trees, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Woods with Pine Trees

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1850–1851

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountain River or Lake, by Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

Mountain River or Lake

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1897

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watercolor no. 35, Field with Two Pine Trees, by Allen Tucker, born Brooklyn, NY 1866-died New York City 1939

Watercolor no. 35, Field with Two Pine Trees

Allen Tucker, born Brooklyn, NY 1866-died New York City 1939 · 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint John the Baptist in Prison, Visited by his Disciples

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1595 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Yui, Summit of Mount Satta, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Yui, Summit of Mount Satta, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · ca. 1834

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Pair of Platters

A Pair of Platters

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study of Pine Tree, Shawangunk Mountains, by Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906

Study of Pine Tree, Shawangunk Mountains

Daniel Huntington, American, 1816–1906 · 1837

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 324352 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 02:43 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.