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. 24 shown for “Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:08 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.
Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs

Rank Badge with Bird and Flower Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Miniature tabard

Miniature tabard

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1700

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Boiserie from the Hôtel de Varengeville

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1736–52, with later additions

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish in the shape of a leaf

Dish in the shape of a leaf

Artist not stated in the record · late 7th–early 8th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress

Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Deer and Phoenix Motifs

Bowl with Deer and Phoenix Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pipa (琵琶 )

Pipa (琵琶 )

Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée), by Paul Gudin Le Jeune

Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)

Paul Gudin Le Jeune · clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge

Rank badge

Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty, 1368–1644

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rank Badge with Egret

Rank Badge with Egret

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Rank badge (buzi)

Rank badge (buzi)

Artist not stated in the record · Ming dynasty 1368–1644

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. 488 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2077412 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 07:08 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.