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. 14 shown for “Rice measure with four constellation deities” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 20:00 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.
Rice measure with four constellation deities

Rice measure with four constellation deities

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo, by Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858

Inari Shrine at Oji (Oji Inari no yashiro) From the Series One Hundred Famous views of Edo

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797–1858 · 1857

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru (Yaoshi fo)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1319

Public domainThe Met
Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Chimneypiece, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Part of a throne with deity on a bull

Part of a throne with deity on a bull

Artist not stated in the record · ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Flying Apsaras (Hiten)

Flying Apsaras (Hiten)

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th to early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Astronomical Ceiling, by Charles K. Wilkinson

Astronomical Ceiling

Charles K. Wilkinson · ca. 1473–1458 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Seated satyr with silvered eyes, by Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

Seated satyr with silvered eyes

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio · second quarter of the 16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, by Gerard David

The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard

Gerard David · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Asen (commemorative altar), by Fon artist

Asen (commemorative altar)

Fon artist · late 19th century–mid-20th century

Public domainThe Met
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Seal casket with cover

Seal casket with cover

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Public domainThe Met
The Harvesters, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Public domainThe Met
Grouped pigment jars, by Teotihuacan artist(s)

Grouped pigment jars

Teotihuacan artist(s) · 300–800 CE

Public domainThe Met
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 701592 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 20:00 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.