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 “Reverse Cassetta frame” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 11:46 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

Public domainThe Met
Pleated fan, by Charles Bour, French, 1814–1881

Pleated fan

Charles Bour, French, 1814–1881 · mid- 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
"Chuck Luck Pocket Match Safe and Dice Box"

"Chuck Luck Pocket Match Safe and Dice Box"

Artist not stated in the record · patented 1893

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for paintings. Obverse: A Roman officer holds a crucifix upon a heathen altar. Reverse: Christ rising, by Pasqualino Marini

Sketches for paintings. Obverse: A Roman officer holds a crucifix upon a heathen altar. Reverse: Christ rising

Pasqualino Marini · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Armchairs, by John Henry Belter, American, b. Germany, 1804 – 1863

Pair of Armchairs

John Henry Belter, American, b. Germany, 1804 – 1863 · design: 1850; Crest decoration design: 1849

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse Cassetta frame

Reverse Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Aluminum with Glass Beads

Aluminum with Glass Beads

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta frame

Reverse cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1630–40

Public domainThe Met
Project: decoration with escutcheons, (A) of a square, (B) of a horizontally oblong panel

Project: decoration with escutcheons, (A) of a square, (B) of a horizontally oblong panel

Artist not stated in the record · 1600–1625

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse cassetta mirror frame

Reverse cassetta mirror frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1950 (style 17th century)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment

Fragment

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse ripple cassetta frame

Reverse ripple cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Frame

Frame

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reverse Cassetta frame (pair with 1975.1.2110)

Reverse Cassetta frame (pair with 1975.1.2110)

Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century

Public domainThe Met
Handscreen

Handscreen

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

Public domainThe Met
Tile, by J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883

Tile

J. & J. G. Low Art Tile Works, 1877 – 1883 · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Female Mask with Tendrils, by F.S. Gilbert

Female Mask with Tendrils

F.S. Gilbert · ca. 1905

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. 739 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 50755 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-31 11:46 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.