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. 12 shown for “Possibly weight with a crouching tiger” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Possibly weight with a crouching tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mountain Views from Cuautla, Mexico, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Mountain Views from Cuautla, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching Dromedary, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Crouching Dromedary

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February–March 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Bedroom Alcove, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Bedroom Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca, 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Monument, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Framework in three sections, possibly for an altar tablet

Framework in three sections, possibly for an altar tablet

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Board game

Board game

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mat weight in the form of a tiger in mountains

Mat weight in the form of a tiger in mountains

Artist not stated in the record · 206 BCE-220 CE

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826), by Camillo Gajani, Italian

Studies for a Sepulchral Monument, possibly commissioned by King John II of Portugal-Brazil (1815-1826)

Camillo Gajani, Italian · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Transience, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664

Allegory of Transience

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1609–1664 · 1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Crouching tiger

Crouching tiger

Artist not stated in the record · 220-266

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1740

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1996626 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 12:57 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.