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. 13 shown for “Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram” — 41 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:04 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.
Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram

Portrait of Thakur Utham Ram

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

Public domainThe Met
Cygnus columbianus

Cygnus columbianus

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier), by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750

Epitaphe de marbre et bronze de Mr. le Baron de Bezenval (Epitaph in Marble and Bronze for Baron de Bezenval), plate 100, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Cartel Clock, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for a Cartel Clock

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1700–1715

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Divers Vases posé sur des Socles, by Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791

Divers Vases posé sur des Socles

Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish, 1714 – 1791 · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, by Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731

Ornament Design

Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731 · 1716-19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Three Pedestals, by Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789 · 1770–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Fountains, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Designs for Fountains

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Title Page and Staircase Balustrade Design, by Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790

Title Page and Staircase Balustrade Design

Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Twelve Earrings, by Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century

Designs for Twelve Earrings

Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century · 1865–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ram's Head

Ram's Head

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cartoon for Silk Damask: Cornucopias with Rams' Heads

Cartoon for Silk Damask: Cornucopias with Rams' Heads

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Vase Design, by P. Moithey, French, active 18th century

Ornamental Vase Design

P. Moithey, French, active 18th century · 1767

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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2862905 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-28 17:04 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.