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. 18 shown for “Platter with the story of Pan An” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:25 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 with the story of Pan An

Platter with the story of Pan An

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Kioto, by Bates, Gildea & Walker, active 1879 – 1881

Kioto

Bates, Gildea & Walker, active 1879 – 1881 · ca. 1879–81

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Platter

Platter

Artist not stated in the record · 1745–55

Public domainThe Met
Platter (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, by Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi · 1597–98

Public domainThe Met
Platter (One of a Pair), by Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756

Platter (One of a Pair)

Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756 · ca. 1784–1806

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Striding Pan, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Striding Pan

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · 1530–1539

Public domainThe Met
Platter, by Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776

Platter

Spode Ceramic Works, English, established 1776 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée

Artist not stated in the record · 1664

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Libyan Sibyl, by William Wetmore Story

The Libyan Sibyl

William Wetmore Story · 1860; carved 1861

Public domainThe Met
platter

platter

Artist not stated in the record

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

Wall clock (cartel)

Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Public domainThe Met
Stove, by David II Pfau

Stove

David II Pfau · ca. 1684–85

Public domainThe Met
Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek, by Hans of Landshut

Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek

Hans of Landshut · 1498

Public domainThe Met
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)

Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Public domainThe Met
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

Public domainThe Met
Hercules and Achelous, by Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Hercules and Achelous

Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century

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. 4836 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. 3023110 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:25 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.