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 “Presentation box for a brush” — 40 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:19 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.

Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Literature, by Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818

Design for a Frieze with the Allegory of Literature

Piat Joseph Sauvage, French, 1744 - 1818 · 1785-1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tribonian Presents Pandects to Emperor Julian, after Perino del Vaga; Sketch of Trophy, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Tribonian Presents Pandects to Emperor Julian, after Perino del Vaga; Sketch of Trophy

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham, by Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham

Gravelot, French, 1699 - 1773, active in England · 1737–38

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Salon, with Statues of Apollo and Venus, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Design for a Salon, with Statues of Apollo and Venus

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · ca. 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of the Belmont Menagerie, Newport, Rhode Island, by Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943

Elevation of the Belmont Menagerie, Newport, Rhode Island

Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943 · ca. 1894

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Overlooking El Arabah, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Overlooking El Arabah

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 21, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches for an altar, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sketches for an altar

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Clock, by Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai

Design for Clock

Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai · 1800–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plastic brush with box from Mae's Millinery Shop

Plastic brush with box from Mae's Millinery Shop

Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Toilette simple, by Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783

Toilette simple

Pierre Germain, French, 1703 - 1783 · 1748

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Instrument cleaning snake and case belonging to Maxine Sullivan

Instrument cleaning snake and case belonging to Maxine Sullivan

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1936

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1755–57

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. 2131429 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 09:19 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.