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 (pair with 1975.1.2110)” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 14:06 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.
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
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
Portrait of a Young Man, by Hans Memling

Portrait of a Young Man

Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75

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. 1630

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
Cassetta frame

Cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Quail and Floral Decoration, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818

Quail and Floral Decoration

Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · ca. 1886

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation., by Reinhold Vasters

Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation.

Reinhold Vasters · second half 16th century (panels); ca. 1865–90 (frame)

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, June (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Pietro Lorenzetti

The Crucifixion

Pietro Lorenzetti · 1340s

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), by Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734 · 1709–10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged arched cassetta frame

Engaged arched cassetta frame

Artist not stated in the record · 1460–70

Public domainThe Met
The Lion Strangler

The Lion Strangler

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars and Venus United by Love, by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Mars and Venus United by Love

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

Public domainThe Met
Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Cabinet card of an unidentified child

Artist not stated in the record · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tondo mirror frame, by Benedetto da Maiano

Tondo mirror frame

Benedetto da Maiano · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Fragments

Fragments

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1246

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Minbar Doors

Pair of Minbar Doors

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1325–30

Public domainThe Met
Henry Lee at Paulus Hook, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies: Original obverse die paired with later Barber reverse), by United States Mint

Henry Lee at Paulus Hook, United States, 1779 (U.S. Mint copy dies: Original obverse die paired with later Barber reverse)

United States Mint · 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Carte-de-visite of a woman with birdcages in Napa, California

Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888

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. 363 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. 282068 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 14:06 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.